Davis, who has admitted to being in the car used to commit the drive-by shooting of Shakur, was arrested early Friday morning and indicted hours later for the murder of the legendary rapper.
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Duane Davis was indicted Friday in Las Vegas for the murder of Tupac Shakur, a charge he could be found guilty of whether or not he was the person who pulled the trigger on the hip-hop icon, according to prosecutors.Key Facts
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told reporters Friday that an aiding and abetting statute under Nevada law “provides that if you help somebody commit a crime, you can be equally as guilty.”
Davis, 60, was indicted on the charge of murder with use of a deadly weapon, and has said he was in white Cadillac with a shooter who gunned down Shakur in 1996, repeating the admission in interviews and in a 2019 book, which prosecutors said also contained an admission that Davis acquired a gun with the intent to kill the rapper.
In this book, Compton Street Legend, Davis also described himself as a “hardened gangster” who was a leader in the South Side Compton Crips gang at the time of Shakur’s murder, which followed an altercation where the rapper’s entourage punched and kicked Davis’s nephew, Orlando Anderson.
Davis pinned the murder on his late nephew in a 2011 interview with LA Weekly, and also accused Sean Combs, better known as rapper P Diddy, of offering him $1 million to kill Tupac and his manager, Marion “Suge” Knight.
