Ex-gang leader facing trial in Tupac Shakur killing seeking release from Vegas jail on $750K bail

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A former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing hip-hop music legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas will ask a judge next week to let him out of jail pending trial on a murder charge

FILE - Duane"Keffe D" Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 slaying of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, is led into the courtroom during a status hearing at the Regional Justice Center, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Las Vegas. Davis will ask a judge next week on June 24, to let him out of jail pending trial on a murder charge. in 1996 in Las Vegas will ask a judge next week to let him out of jail to prepare for his trial on a murder charge.

Prosecutors asked Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny to require a “source hearing” for Davis to demonstrate that any funds used to secure his release are obtained legally. He and prosecutors say he is the only person still alive among four people who were in a car from which shots were fired in the September 1996 shooting that killed Shakur and wounded rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight at an intersection just off the Las Vegas Strip. Knight is servingin a California prison for an unrelated case, the use of a vehicle to kill a Los Angeles-area man in 2015.

 

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