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\n\tDiGiacomo argued the 2008 proffer agreement was beyond the control of Las Vegas authorities, and Davis benefited from it for years. He said Davis later forfeited its protections by publicly repeating details from the interview because he was angry Los Angeles police detective Greg Kading wrote his own book about the case. Davis, he argued, couldn\u2019t resisit speaking up. The long delay before Davis was charged, DiGiacomo said, did not mean Las Vegas investigators doubted his culpability.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe had to eat crow and allow a murderer to live in Henderson and not charge him because of the various things that happened in this case,\u201d DiGiacomo said. He closed by pointing to a social media clip in which Davis boasted that he had \u201cbeat the streets,\u201d \u201cbeat the Feds\u201d and \u201cbeat cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAnd now he\u2019s trying to beat 12 of you,\u201d DiGiacomo told the jury. \u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s going on here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFormer Los Angeles police Detective Daryn Dupree testified on the third day of the trial, telling jurors Davis first volunteered his involvement in Shakur\u2019s killing while investigators were questioning him about the 1997 slaying of Christopher Wallace, the rapper known as the Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls. Dupree said he and Kading confronted Davis at his home and told him they had evidence linking him to cocaine and PCP trafficking. They suggested Davis could help himself by cooperating.<\/p>\n
\n\tDupree said Davis denied any involvement in the Biggie shooting but then shocked them with the words, \u201cWe did the other one.\u201d Davis later sat down for the recorded proffer interview with his lawyer.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cDon\u2019t bullshit me, and I won\u2019t bullshit y\u2019all,\u201d Davis said at the start of the Dec. 18, 2008, interview, which was played for jurors. Det. Kading assured him during the interview, \u201cNothing you say can be used against you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDavis appeared skeptical but went on to say he was riding in the front passenger seat of the white Cadillac, with Anderson seated behind him, fellow South Side Compton Crips member DeAndre \u201cDre\u201d Smith behind the driver, and Terrence \u201cBubble Up\u201d Brown at the wheel. (All three of the other passengers are now dead.)<\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to Davis\u2019 account, the Cadillac pulled alongside a BMW driven by Knight, with Shakur in the passenger seat, near the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane just off the Las Vegas Strip. Davis said he did not have a clear shot, so he passed a loaded .40-caliber Glock to the back seat. Smith hesitated, Davis said, and Anderson grabbed the weapon and opened fire.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHe leaned over on the window. He rolled down the window, popped \u2019em,\u201d Davis said on the recording. \u201cIf they drove on my side, I would have popped \u2019em.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDavis said Knight looked directly at him as the gunfire erupted. Knight was wounded but survived the attack, while Shakur was struck multiple times and died six days later at age 25.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe did what we had to do,\u201d Davis said of the shooting. He told investigators that after fleeing, the group returned to a hotel to \u201csmoke weed and drink.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSanft argued his client\u2019s account was pure fiction, and that investigators failed to quickly and vigorously corroborate it for a reason. \u201cIt\u2019s because they knew he was full of crap,\u201d Sanft told jurors during his opening statement.<\/p>\n
\n\tProsecutors countered that Davis repeatedly told versions of the same story over and over, growing bolder by the year. They argued that by publicly repeating his claims from the proffer, Davis waived his protections against prosecution. <\/p>\n
\n\tDupree said he believed Davis was telling the truth during the 2008 proffer, in part because Davis implicated his own nephew. \u201cI didn\u2019t think Mr. Davis was lying because he put the gun in his nephew\u2019s hand,\u201d Dupree testified.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnderson, who long had been considered a suspect in Shakur\u2019s killing, denied involvement before his death in an unrelated Compton shooting in 1998 at age 23.<\/p>\n
\n\tAt Davis\u2019 trial other witnesses described the early investigation and the atmosphere surrounding the shooting. Former Las Vegas police officer Garry Dale testified that he rode in the ambulance with the wounded Shakur and repeatedly asked him to identify his attacker. Dale said Shakur refused.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cNo, we\u2019ll take care of it,\u201d Dale recalled the rapper saying.<\/p>\n
\n\tReggie Wright Jr., Knight\u2019s testified about the escalating East Coast-West Coast rap industry war that pitted Knight\u2019s label in California against Bad Boy Records and its CEO Sean Combs<\/a> in New York. He recalled seeing Davis with members of Sean \u201cPuffy\u201d Combs\u2019 Bad Boy Records entourage at the 1996 Soul Train Awards in Los Angeles, where a member of the Bad Boy entourage allegedly brandished a gun.<\/p>\n\n\tJurors heard testimony that police tried to corroborate Davis\u2019 claim that Combs had offered money for Knight\u2019s killing. Dupree told them Davis became a confidential informant in 2009 and traveled with investigators to New York in an effort to reconnect with Eric \u201cZip\u201d Martin, the man Davis identified as his link to Combs.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tCombs supposedly had given money to Zip Martin to give to Mr. Davis for payment for the Tupac murder, Dupree testified. The effort failed when Martin, who was in poor health, did not meet with Davis as investigators had hoped.<\/p>\n
\n\tCombs, now serving a 50-month prison term for his 2025 conviction on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, has vehemently denied any involvement in Shakur\u2019s death<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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