Legal Blow for Tupac Murder Suspect as Evidence Stands

Legal Blow for Tupac Murder Suspect as Evidence Stands

The suspect in the murder of Tupac Shakur has failed in their attempt to suppress key evidence in the case.

Music News: Tupac Murder Suspect Fails To Suppress Evidence

The man charged with murder for his alleged role in the 1996 shooting death of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur has lost his bid to suppress key evidence.

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis argued it was obtained through an unlawful nighttime search, but a judge denied the request at a Tuesday hearing, Rolling Stone reports.

His defence lawyers argued in filings obtained by the outlet that Davis was a retired grandfather and cancer survivor who “cooperated politely” when a detective knocked on his door during daylight hours before the July 2023 search. 

The lawyers said police made “strategic omissions” when they portrayed Davis as a “multiple-time convicted felon” with a gun arrest in their search warrant application. 

According to the lawyers, Davis left the drug trade in 2008 and had a decade of lawful employment afterwards, working as an oil refinery inspector. 

Prosecutors allege he orchestrated Shakur’s drive-by killing and supplied the gun that also wounded Suge Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records, who was driving along the Vegas Strip. 

Authorities say the attack was retaliation after Shakur got in a fight with Orlando Anderson hours earlier inside a casino on 6 September, 1996.

During a 2008 interview with law enforcement, Davis claimed Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the founder of Bad Boy Records, offered $1 million (£740,000) to have Knight and Shakur killed amid a feud. 

Combs has vehemently denied the allegation.

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Author: Brad LeBeau (promotionmusicnews.com)
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