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Shaimaa KhalilReporting from court<\/p>\n
Jury hears of the night ‘all hell broke loose’ when Tupac was shotpublished at 03:07 BST<\/p>\n
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Shaimaa Khalil
Reporting from court<\/p>\n
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Watch: What we learned from opening statements in Tupac Shakur\u2019s murder trial<\/p>\n
A day in court has been a long time coming in the 30-year-old cold case of Tupac Shakur’s murder in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
I was inside the courthouse as opening statements began in the
\ntrial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, charged with murder in Tupac’s death.<\/p>\n
Davis walked in wearing a blue suit, scanned the public gallery and
\nthen sat quietly beside his lawyer as prosecutors laid out their case against
\nhim.<\/p>\n
They say Davis orchestrated Tupac Shakur’s killing as revenge for
\nan attack on his nephew earlier that night.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor told the jury what they can expect to hear in this trial: “You will learn from Keffe D himself.”<\/p>\n
That’s because much of the case against Davis comes from his own words in his memoir Compton Street Legend. He describes being inside a white Cadillac at the scene of the shooting and
\nsupplying the gun that was passed into the back seat and used to shoot Tupac.<\/p>\n
Davis’s defence says that account was a fictional embellishment to sell
\nbooks, calling the decades-long investigation “biased, sloppy and
\nincomplete”.<\/p>\n
The jury on Monday also heard about the crucial minutes before and after the
\nshooting from those who were there.<\/p>\n
A former police officer said he saw the BMW carrying Tupac and
\nrecord-label boss Suge Knight riddled with bullets.<\/p>\n
Another witness recalled hearing the gunfire: “All hell broke
\nloose.”<\/p>\n
But she did not see the shooter.<\/p>\n
And the detective who investigated the case at the time said
\nwitnesses had “skedaddled” – leaving police with little more info than a white car and
\na glimpse of what he described as “a black arm”.<\/p>\n
As the jury hears from more witnesses in the coming days, they must decide how reliable their testimony is – and whether Davis’s own words were indeed fact or fiction.<\/p>\n