SMH: What's the Man Charged in Tupac Shakur’s Murder Accused of Doing This Time?

Kalyn Womack
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Updated as of 1/2/2024 at 9:30 a.m. ET

The man charged in connection to Tupac Shakur’s murder is now being accused by prosecutors of threatening to kill a potential witness who may testify against him in trial.

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Davis’ Confessions for “Clout”

Attorneys for Davis previously filed a lengthy motion arguing that their client was imprisoned based on evidence that is “hearsay and speculative testimony,” according to an ABC report. Part of that evidence came from a book written by former LAPD Detective Greg Kading, in which Davis is accused of being commissioned by Sean “Diddy” Combs to be the hitman in Pac’s murder.

Even more information came from a published recording in which Davis told the detective he was in the vehicle with his nephew, Orlando Anderson, who was accused of shooting at Pac through the window.

In addition to that, Davis also talked too damn much over the past decades about the shooting itself and penned a memoir, “Compton Street Legend,” which further implicated him in the crime. He was arrested in September and pleaded not guilty to his charge of murder with use of deadly weapon in a gang-related homicide.

Now, Davis is trying to walk back all the receipts he left, claiming they were just for “entertainment.”

Read more from ABC News:

His lawyers now say prosecutors “did not introduce any independent evidence” connecting Davis to the crime, but instead used testimony from witnesses “with questionable credibility” and “relied on excerpts” from Davis’ book, which they say could have been penned by his co-author.

Interviews Davis himself gave detailing his role in the shooting were “never verified” for their “truthfulness,” his lawyers said, adding that Davis’ media admissions were “done for entertainment purposes” and for financial gain.

They said “parts” of Davis’ book “are fiction and dramatized to make the book more marketable,” and that even if the allegations are “assumed to be true,” there is “no evidence that [Davis] directed the shooting” and “no evidence or allegations that [he] was the shooter.”

Davis requested to be released from jail and placed on house arrest as he awaits his trial in June. We’ll see if the judge grants his wish.

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