New details about the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur could finally come to light in the upcoming trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis. Davis, 63, is accused of orchestrating the drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip that also wounded rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight.

The Night of the Shooting

On the night of Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur was in the passenger seat of a black BMW that Knight was driving when a white Cadillac pulled up on their right side and gunfire erupted. Knight was wounded but survived. Shakur died a week later at the age of 25.

Police and prosecutors say the shooting stemmed from a fierce competition for dominance in a musical genre that pitted East Coast members of a Bloods gang sect against West Coast members of a Crips sect that Davis has said he led in Compton.

Who Was There That Night

Three others were with Davis in the Cadillac, but none of them faced charges in Shakur’s killing before they died. The others in the car included Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Deandre “Big Dre” Smith, and Terrence Brown, who was driving the Cadillac.

Anderson, who denied involvement in Shakur’s killing, died two years later in what police said was an unrelated shooting at a Compton car wash. Smith was 30 when he died in 2004 of natural causes. Brown died in a 2015 shooting at a medical marijuana dispensary in Compton.

Original reporting: Dallas TX News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.