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Jurors on Thursday heard Duane \u201cKeffe D\u201d Davis<\/a> tell detectives in 2008 that his nephew Orlando \u201cBaby Lane\u201d Anderson fired the shots that killed rapper Tupac Shakur<\/a> in 1996.<\/p>\n

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Davis, who claimed he was also in the car with his nephew, is accused of orchestrating the killing of the 25-year-old rapper in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

At the time of the interview with detectives in Los Angeles County, Davis\u2019s nephew had been dead for a decade.<\/p>\n

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Davis, 63, alleged that the white Cadillac he and Anderson were in with two other men pulled up alongside a car with Shakur inside, along with Death Row Records head Marion \u201cSuge\u201d Knight<\/a>, according to a\u00a0livestream of the trial<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Law&Crime<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf we would have been on my side, I would have blasted,\u201d Davis told detectives.<\/p>\n

Instead, Knight\u2019s car was on the other side, so Davis alleged that he passed his gun back to Deandre \u201cBig Dre\u201d Smith. But Smith didn\u2019t want it, according to Davis.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Orlando shot across Dre?\u201d an investigator asked.<\/p>\n

Davis, who has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with use of a deadly weapon, alleged that Anderson, who was in the back seat, took the weapon and started firing shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe leaned over on the window. He rolled down the window, popped \u2019em,\u201d Davis replied. \u201cIf they drove on my side, I would have popped \u2019em, know what I\u2019m saying. But they was on the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Davis alleged that Knight looked directly at him as the gunfire began, while Shakur attempted to try to climb into the back seat of the car.<\/p>\n

Davis, who has been jailed since his arrest in September 2023<\/a>, went on to say that Knight tried to duck but was too large to get out of the way of the gunfire and was struck.<\/p>\n

He believed that Knight had been shot in the head. But Knight survived and Shakur was hit multiple times. He died in the hospital a week after the shooting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe did what we had to do,\u201d Davis said of the shooting in the 2008 interview.<\/p>\n

The transcript of the audio recording was displayed on a screen for jurors in the court room to watch.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors told jurors in opening statements that they would lean heavily on Davis\u2019s own admissions in interviews with police and on podcasts, as well as the 2019 memoir he co-authored, Compton Street Legend: Notorious Keffe D\u2019s Street-Level Accounts of the Tupac and Biggie Murders, Death Row Origins, Suge Knight, Puffy Combs, and Crooked Cops.<\/em><\/p>\n

In his 2019 memoir, which described Davis\u2019s life as a leader of a Crips gang sect in Compton, he said he obtained a .40-calibre handgun and handed it to Anderson in the back seat of a car, from which he and authorities say shots were fired at Shakur in another car.<\/p>\n

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Davis previously told the FBI that his nephew was not involved in the shooting of Shakur and speculated that Knight or Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/a> was involved.<\/p>\n

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