00:00Opening statements and witness testimonies have begun in a long-awaited trial almost 30 years after hip-hop icon Tupac
00:08Shakur was killed in 1996.
00:11Dwayne Kifidi Davis, a self-described gangster, is being accused of plotting the fatal murder in a case built against
00:18him via his own testimonies, police corroborations, and from a memoir released in 2019.
00:24He had reportedly sought to retaliate against Shakur after the artist's entourage attacked his nephew in Las Vegas just hours
00:31before the shooting.
00:33Dwayne Davis did not pull the trigger, but what he did do was plan the retaliation for the beating of
00:42his nephew.
00:43Dwayne Davis made sure that the shooters were armed and ready to execute their revenge.
00:51And remarkably, you will learn that from Dwayne Davis himself.
00:58Davis' defense argued that for almost 30 years until his 2023 indictment, there were no charges in this case due
01:05to a lack of evidence moving to slam the prosecution's claims as fiction.
01:10And at the end of all the time we spent together, what you're going to find is that the state
01:15cannot prove to you, beyond a reasonable doubt, the claim that he had anything to do with a first-degree
01:20murder with used a deadly weapon.
01:24There's no facts to that matter.
01:27Davis' attorney is presenting a defense strategy, painting his own client as a liar, essentially withdrawing all previous testimony he
01:35made linking himself to Tupac's killing.
01:46Tupac Shakur was the victim of a drive-by shooting outside the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas on 7
01:52September 1996,
01:53where he sustained critical gunshot wounds before succumbing to his injuries a week later.
01:58Davis is the only living member of the four-person entourage believed to have carried out the shooting from a
02:04white Cadillac vehicle.
02:06Orlando, baby lane.
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