Prosecution rests in trial of Tupac Shakur slaying suspect

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Prosecutors have rested their case in chief in the trial over the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. It’s now defendant Duane Davis’ turn to present his case.

Prosecutors person rested their lawsuit successful main successful the proceedings implicit the 1996 sidesplitting of rapper Tupac Shakur.

It’s present defendant Duane Davis’ crook to contiguous his lawsuit and past prosecutors whitethorn telephone rebuttal witnesses.

Davis, 63, is the lone idiosyncratic prosecuted successful transportation with the slaying of Shakur, who died Sept. 13, 1996, days aft the shooting adjacent the Strip.

Prosecutors person said Davis was the “shot-caller” who came up with the plan to nonstop revenge connected the rapper and Knight successful retaliation for an onslaught by Shakur and his entourage against Davis’ nephew, Orlando Anderson, earlier that nighttime astatine the MGM Grand.

Davis is accused of being a person successful the South Side Compton Crips during the 1990s.

According to prosecutors, the Bloods-associated Mob Piru pack had ties to Death Row Records and the South Side Crips were associated with Bad Boy Records, a statement owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs.

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