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Duane Davis is convicted of orchestrating the 1996 murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are read verbatim
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  by a computer. Dwayne Davis is convicted of orchestrating the
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  1996 murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur. On September 7, 1996,
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  at 11.15 p.m., Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old American rapper, was
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  shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada. The shooting
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  occurred when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a
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  red light at East Flamingo Road and Coval Lane. Shakur
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  was struck by four rounds fired from a. 40 caliber
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  Glock 22 pistol. Two in the chest, one in the
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  arm and one in the thigh. The driver, Death Row
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  Records mogul Suge Knight, was grazed by a bullet in
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  the shooting. Shakur died from his injuries six days later.
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  In the USA Network documentary Unsolved, broadcast in 2018, Dwayne
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  Keffie D. Davis, a Southside Compton Crips gang leader in California,
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  stated that he, Terrence T. Brown Brown, Orlando Anderson, and
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  DeAndre Dre Smith were in the Cadillac involved in the
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  drive-by shooting. Anderson, also a member of the Crips, was
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  suspected in the murder for many years, but denied being
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  involved and was never charged. He was killed in an
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  unrelated gang shooting in 1998. On September 29, 2023, Davis,
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  Anderson's uncle, was arrested after being indicted by a grand
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  jury for first-degree murder of Shakur. He was found guilty
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  of Shakur's murder on August 31, 2026. Tupac Amaru Shakur,
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  also known by his stage names Tupac and Machiavelli, was
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  an American rapper and actor. He was one of the
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  most influential musical artists of the 20th century, and a
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  prominent political activist for Black America. He is among the
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  best-selling music artists, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide.
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  Some of Shakur's music addressed social injustice, political issues and
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  the marginalization of African Americans, but he was also synonymous
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  with gangster rap and violent lyrics. Shakur was born in
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  New York City to parents who were Black Panther Party members.
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  Raised by his mother Afeni Shakur, he relocated to the
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  San Francisco Bay Area in 1988. His debut album 2,
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  Pacalypse Now, cemented him as a central figure in West
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  Coast hip-hop for his political rap lyrics. Shakur achieved further
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  critical and commercial success with his subsequent albums Strictly 4,
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  My N.I.G.G.A.Z., and Me Against the World. His Diamond-certified album
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  All Eyes on Me, the first hip-hop double album, abandoned
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  introspective lyrics for volatile gangster rap. It yielded two Billboard
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  Hot 100 No. 1 singles, California Love and How Do
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  You Want It. Alongside his solo career, Shakur formed the
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  group Thug Life and collaborated with artists like Snoop Dogg, Dr.
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  Dre and The Outlaws. As an actor, Shakur starred in
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  the films Juice, Poetic Justice, Above the Rim, Bullet, Gridlocked,
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  and Gang Related. In November 1994, Shakur was shot five
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  times in the lobby of a New York recording studio,
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  and experienced legal troubles, including incarceration. He served eight months
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  in prison on sexual abuse charges, but was released pending
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  appeal in 1995. Following his release, he signed to Marion
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  Cigenite's label, Death Row Records, and became embroiled in the
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  East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry, which included a high-profile feud
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  with his former friend The Notorious B.I.G., On September 7, 1996,
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  Shakur was murdered by an unidentified assailant in a drive-by
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  shooting in Paradise, Nevada. He died six days later. On
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  August 31, 2026, Southside Compton Crips member Dwayne Keffie D.
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  Davis was convicted of orchestrating Shakur's murder, but the shooter
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  has not been conclusively identified. Shakur's double-length posthumous album Greatest
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  Hits is one of his two releases, and one of
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  only nine hip-hop albums to have been certified diamond in
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  the United States. Five more albums have been released since
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  Shakur's death, including the acclaimed under the stage name Machiavelli,
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  all of which have been certified multi-platinum in the United States.
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  In 2002, Shakur was inducted into the Hip Hop Hall
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  of Fame. In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock
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  and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
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  Rolling Stone ranked Shakur among the 100 greatest artists of
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  all time. In 2023, he was awarded a posthumous star
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  on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His influence in music, activism,
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  songwriting and other areas of culture has been the subject
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  of academic studies. That's it for now. See the episode
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