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Tupac Shakur Murder Trial Begins for Accused Mastermind in 1996 Drive-By | Crime Alert 08.10.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news. Now, I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly thirty years after one of the most infamous unsolved
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  Speaker 1: murders in music history, jury selection begins Monday in Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas for sixty three year old Dwayne KEEVD Davis. Davis
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  Speaker 1: is charged with murder with the use of a deadly
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  Speaker 1: weapon in the fatal September nineteen ninety six drive by
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  Speaker 1: shooting of hip hop icon Tupac Shakur and the wounding
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  Speaker 1: of Death Row Record CEO Marion sug Knight. Prosecutors allege
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  Speaker 1: that Davis was the shot collar of a four man
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  Speaker 1: crew seeking revenge after an earlier fight between Tupac Knight
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  Speaker 1: and Davis's nephew, Orlando Anderson at a Las Vegas hotel.
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  Speaker 1: What makes this high stakes trial extraordinary is the prosecution's
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  Speaker 1: primary evidence the defendants own words. Investigators have no murder weapon,
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  Speaker 1: no getaway car, and no surveillance video from that fateful
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  Speaker 1: night on the Vegas stre Instead, the case relies almost
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  Speaker 1: entirely on statements Davis made across media platforms over two decades.
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  Speaker 1: The centerpiece is his twenty nineteen tell All memoir Compton
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  Speaker 1: Street legend where Davis provides a chilling play by play
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  Speaker 1: narrative of getting a glock pistol, hopping into a white
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  Speaker 1: Cadillac and trailing Shaker's vehicle before a passenger in the
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  Speaker 1: back seat open fire. In legal filings, prosecutors called Davis's
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  Speaker 1: extensive public admissions GoldStar evidence, pointing out that details in
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  Speaker 1: his book match physical evidence, including a photograph of Davis
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  Speaker 1: wearing a distinct suit mentioned in his writing. Over the years,
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  Speaker 1: Davis reiterated his involvement during a two thousand and eight
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  Speaker 1: federal profit interview, a twenty eighteen interview on Beet's death,
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  Speaker 1: row chronicles, and media appearances with outlets like lad TV.
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  Speaker 1: According to prosecutors, when Las Vegas police arrested him in
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  Speaker 1: September twenty twenty three, body camera footage recorded Davis openly
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  Speaker 1: declaring he was being taken in for the biggest case
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas history. Now, Davis faces up to life
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  Speaker 1: in prison if convicted, setting up a rare legal dynamic
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  Speaker 1: where prosecutors will argue the defendant is a credible narrator,
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  Speaker 1: while defense attorneys will paint their own client as a
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  Speaker 1: desperate liar and fraud who fabricated stories to profit off notoriety.
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  Speaker 1: Davis now claims his previous statements were false tall tales
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  Speaker 1: embellished by his co author. Prosecutors must also overcome major
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  Speaker 1: hurdles including thirty elapsed years, deceased witnesses, and a reluctant
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  Speaker 1: sug Knight who is currently serving twenty eight years in
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  Speaker 1: prison for a fatal hit and run, and as stated,
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  Speaker 1: he will not testify. More Crime and Justice news after this.
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  Speaker 1: In Manden, North Dakota, a mother is behind bars facing
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  Speaker 1: nine criminal charges, including two counts of murder, after what
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  Speaker 1: local law enforcement describes as a traumatizing scene of violence.
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  Speaker 1: Police alleged twenty two year old Kayley Earhart stabbed her
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  Speaker 1: five month old and three year old children to death
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, while severely injuring her one year old child,
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  Speaker 1: who survived following emergency surgery. According to police reports, the
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  Speaker 1: horrifying incident began earlier that day when Earhart pulled a
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  Speaker 1: newly purchased handgun on her estranged husband, who was planning
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  Speaker 1: to file for divorce. The husband managed to disarm her
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  Speaker 1: during a violent physical struggle, fighting for control and scattering
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  Speaker 1: the weapons components while sustaining bite and scratch wounds. Shortly after,
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  Speaker 1: Earhart allegedly armed herself with a knife, chasing both her
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  Speaker 1: husband and the children's grandmother out of the residence before
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  Speaker 1: attacking the three young children inside the home. Manndon Police
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  Speaker 1: Chief Jason Ziegler expressed profound grief during a press conference,
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  Speaker 1: praising responding officers for managing a crime scene he called
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  Speaker 1: one of the most horrific anyone could experience. Earhart now
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  Speaker 1: faces charges of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, and terrorizing.
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  Speaker 1: A judge set her cash bond at three million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: citing extreme violence and community danger, alongside strict no contact orders.
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  Speaker 1: Earhart's preliminary hearing and arraignment are scheduled for October sixth
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  Speaker 1: as a local GoFundMe campaign continues raising funds for the
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  Speaker 1: grieving father and surviving child. Finally, a dispute over a
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  Speaker 1: romantic partner in Panama City, Florida, culminated in a brutal
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  Speaker 1: duel using heavy weaponry in a busy public's parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: Police reports indicate that thirty five year old James Gay
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  Speaker 1: and fifty two year old Everett Critchbaum were arrested after
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  Speaker 1: engaging any bloody physical altercation involving a machete in a hatchet.
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  Speaker 1: On August fourth, according to witness Stephanie Marshall, identified as
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  Speaker 1: Gay's current girlfriend and former partner of Critchbaum, tension had
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  Speaker 1: been brewing between the two men. Authority say Gay served
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  Speaker 1: as the primary aggressor, confronting Critchbam while he sat in
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  Speaker 1: his vehicle, before returning with the sheath's macheti and striking
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  Speaker 1: Krischbomb across the face. Krichbaum responded by retrieving a hatchet
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  Speaker 1: from his own car and swinging at Gay. When police
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  Speaker 1: officers arrived, both men required immediate medical attention and were
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  Speaker 1: transported to a hospital. Gay suffered a deep abdominal puncture
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  Speaker 1: wound in a laceration to his pinky finger that exposed
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  Speaker 1: the bone, while Krischbaum suffered severe facial and hand lacerations
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  Speaker 1: after briefly losing consciousness. Court records revealed this is not
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  Speaker 1: Gay's first violent charge. In twenty twelve, Gay was sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen years in prison for aggravated battery in connection
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  Speaker 1: with the twenty eleven death of a sixteen year old
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  Speaker 1: boy whom Gay attacked using a chain wrapped around his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Released early in June twenty twenty four, Gay now faces
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  Speaker 1: new charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Krischbaum
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  Speaker 1: was subsequently arrested by the United States Marshal Service and
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  Speaker 1: faces aggravated battery causing bodily harm. Both men remain held
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  Speaker 1: at the Bay County Jail. For more crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to join us for crime stories with Nancy
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  Speaker 1: streaming on Tube with this crime alert, I'm Sidney Silvanni.