Music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was named on the witness list for Tupac Shakur’s murd£r trial as the prosecution linked him to Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis, who allegedly orchestrated the k!lling.
Opening statements began in the long-awaited trial today over the 1996 drive-by sho0ting that k!lled the California Love hitmaker.
Davis is charged with one count of murd£r with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further, or assist a criminal gang, as prosecutors seek to implicate him in arranging the sho0ting.
The proceedings kicked off in Las Vegas last week, nearly 30 years after the 25-year-old musician was gunned down while riding in the passenger seat of a BMW driven by former Death Row Records boss Suge Knight.
Tupac had been in Las Vegas to watch a Mike Tyson boxing match at the MGM Grand on September 7, 1996, hours before a white Cadillac pulled alongside the car and gunfire erupted. He died from his injuries six days later.
Davis, 63, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, is the only person ever charged in Shakur’s k!lling. Prosecutors allege he ordered the revenge attack and provided the gun used in the sho0ting, although they do not claim he pulled the trigger.
Davis has entered a not guilty plea. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.