Ex-gang leader's account of Tupac Shakur killing is fiction, defense lawyer in Vegas says

The defence lawyer representing a erstwhile Los Angeles-area pack person accused of sidesplitting euphony fable Tupac Shakur successful 1996 successful Las Vegas says his client’s accounts of the sidesplitting are fiction

LAS VEGAS -- The defence lawyer representing a erstwhile Los Angeles-area pack person accused of sidesplitting hip-hop euphony icon Tupac Shakur successful 1996 successful Las Vegas said Tuesday his client's accounts of the sidesplitting are fabrication and prosecutors deficiency cardinal grounds to get a execution conviction.

"He himself is giving antithetic stories," lawyer Carl Arnold told reporters extracurricular a courtroom pursuing a little presumption cheque with his client, Duane “Keffe D” Davis, successful beforehand of a Nevada judge. His proceedings is scheduled for Nov. 4.

“We haven’t seen much than conscionable his word,” Arnold said of Davis' constabulary and media interviews since 2008 successful which prosecutors accidental helium incriminated himself successful Shakur's sidesplitting — including Davis' 2019 tell-all memoir of beingness starring a thoroughfare pack successful Compton, California.

Prosecutor Binu Palal did not instantly remark extracurricular tribunal astir Arnold's statements. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said grounds against Davis is beardown and it volition beryllium up to a assemblage to determine the credibility of Davis' accounts.

Arnold said his lawsuit wanted to marque wealth with his story, truthful helium embellished oregon outright lied astir his engagement successful the car-to-car shooting that killed Shakur and wounded rap euphony mogul Marion “Suge” Knight astatine a postulation awesome adjacent the Las Vegas Strip successful September 1996.

Knight, present 59, is serving 28 years successful a California situation for an unrelated fatal shooting successful the Los Angeles country successful 2015. He was not called by prosecutors to attest earlier the expansive assemblage that indicted Davis past year.

Arnold said Davis volition not attest astatine trial, but helium intends to telephone Knight to testify. The defence lawyer said constabulary and prosecutors deficiency impervious that Davis was successful Las Vegas astatine the clip of Shakur's killing, and don’t person the weapon and car utilized during the shooting arsenic evidence.

“We’ve seen video of everybody other here. Where’s video of him?" Arnold said of Davis. "There’s conscionable thing saying that helium was here.”

Davis has been jailed connected $750,000 bail since his apprehension successful September. Arnold said Tuesday that Davis has been incapable to rise the 10% needed to get a enslaved to beryllium released to location arrest.

Davis, 60, is primitively from Compton. Police, prosecutors and Davis accidental helium is the lone idiosyncratic inactive live who was successful the car from which shots were fired.

Davis pleaded not blameworthy successful November to first-degree murder. If convicted, helium could walk the remainder of his beingness successful prison.

In his book, Davis wrote that helium was promised immunity from prosecution erstwhile helium told authorities successful Los Angeles what helium knew astir the fatal shootings of Shakur and rival rapper Christopher Wallace six months aboriginal successful Los Angeles. Wallace was known arsenic The Notorious B.I.G. oregon Biggie Smalls.

Shakur had 5 No. 1 albums, was nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted successful 2017 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He received a posthumous prima past twelvemonth connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame.