Duane Davis contradicts earlier testimony about who fired shots in Tupac Shakur killing

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, on trial for the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, told a judge in a recorded interview that he did not know who fired the shots, directly opposing his 2008 statement to police that his nephew Orlando Anderson pulled the trigger. Davis claimed he was merely ducking when gunfire erupted from the backseat of his car near the Las Vegas Strip. Prosecutors have highlighted his alleged motive—revenge for a beating Anderson received earlier at the MGM Grand—and presented witnesses like Leonard Jefferson, who saw Suge Knight exit a vehicle and heard him shout that Shakur was shot.

The defense, led by Michael Sanft, argues the prosecution cannot prove Davis’s presence in Las Vegas at the time. The case also revisits claims that Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs offered a million dollars for the hit, a charge the rapper denies. Anderson was killed in a 1998 shooting in Compton, California.