Who Fired the Shots?
In a court‑recorded 2008 interview, Duane "Keffe D" Davis told police he handed a gun to his nephew, Orlando Anderson, who then opened fire on the sitting‑out rapper Tupac Shakur during the infamous 7 September 1996 drive‑by shooting.
The face‑to‑face testimony, now heard for the first time in the courtroom, is a major twist in the thirty‑year cold case that has fascinated fans and journalists alike. Prosecutors argue that Davis orchestrated the attack but did not personally pull the trigger.
Central to this claim is the 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend, in which Davis admits to tossing the gun into the backseat of the car that night. He later says he did not write the whole book and that parts were fictionalized for extra sales.
If Anderson truly fired the bullets, it means Davis’s role was only that of a mastermind—responsible for the plan, not the execution of the murder. Yet, jurors are told that eyewitnesses and police investigations are far from straightforward.
The trial is shaping up to be a clash between shadowy past friendships, shaky documents, and a wave of real‑life drama that has kept the story in the public eye for decades.
