A former gang leader goes on trial Monday (August 10, 2026) in Las Vegas, U.S., over the decades-old murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, one of America’s most high-profile unresolved murders.
What Happened
These compromising revelations were consistent with remarks Mr. In the run-up to the trial, Mr. In May, the rapper’s stepbrother Maurice Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit in civil court.
Wallace (murdered in March 1997). But this time, they came back to haunt him and he was arrested in September 2023. Davis’s lawyers tried in vain to keep the book from being introduced as evidence, along with remarks he made in an interview with police in 2008 as a witness to the killing.
The trial will revisit the battle between Death Row, founded by Marion “Suge” Knight, and Bad Boy Records, the East Coast label created by Sean “Diddy” Combs and starring Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G. The suit cites a recent TV documentary mini- series entitled “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” in which Davis says in an interview with police that Combs, now in prison himself, offered him $1 million to kill Shakur.
Davis had made previously to reporters.
Investigation and Response
Davis’s memoirs. Because of a lack of evidence, but the cold case was revived with the publication in 2019 of Mr, the investigation sputtered for decades.
“I just gave him details of my life,” Mr. Davis said. “And he went and did his little investigation and wrote the book on his own.”
