Tupac Jury Hears Keffe D Describe the Shooting

Shakur and members of his entourage attack Anderson inside the MGM Grand after a Mike Tyson fight. Prosecutors say the beating stemmed from an earlier confrontation in which South Side Compton Crips allegedly robbed Death Row associate Trevon Lane of his chain and medallion at a mall outside Compton. Hours later, a white Cadillac pulls alongside a black BMW driven by Death Row co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight at Flamingo Road and Koval Lane just off the Las Vegas Strip, and Shakur is shot in the passenger seat.

Knight comes in for questioning but says he cannot identify anyone involved. "I thought he lied to us," former Las Vegas homicide detective Brent Becker testified.

Anderson, an early suspect identified from MGM surveillance video, is killed at age 23 in a shooting with a rival Crips member at a Compton car wash, police said.

Former LAPD detectives Daryn Dupree and Greg Kading approach Davis in the garage of his Inland Empire home while investigating the 1997 murder of Christopher Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G. Asked whether he was involved in that killing, Dupree testified, Davis said no — "he didn't have anything to do with 'that one'" — then volunteered, "We did the other one."

Davis sits for a proffer session at his lawyer's office in Los Angeles County, hoping to avoid drug charges that could carry a life sentence. "Don't bullshit me, and I won't bullshit you all," he says at the start. Kading tells him, "Nothing you say can be used against you." The session is recorded; Dupree testified he did not know that at the time, and that Las Vegas authorities were not notified.

Davis repeats the account in his memoir, "Compton Street Legend," writing that the beating of his nephew "gave us the ultimate green light."

Davis is arrested, 27 years after the killing.

The trial opens in Clark County District Court.

Former Las Vegas officer Garry Dale, among the first witnesses, testified he rode in the ambulance with the wounded Shakur and repeatedly asked who shot him; Shakur refused to name anyone, saying, "No, we'll take care of it." On Tuesday, former Mob Piru Bloods member James "Mob James" McDonald testified under subpoena that the shooting set off a gang war in Compton. On Thursday, prosecutors began playing the 2008 recording.