Mr Davis has said he was in the front passenger seat of the Cadillac and handed a. Shot multiple times, Shakur died a week later at age 25. The car was stopped at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip when a white Cadillac pulled up on the passenger side and gunfire erupted.

'And (Knight) brought his entourage, which involved Mob Piru gang members.'Īfter the casino brawl, Knight drove a BMW with Shakur in the front passenger seat. 'Knight and Shakur went to the fight, as did members of the South Side Crips,' prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo said last week in court. Tension escalated in Las Vegas the night of September 7, 1996, when a brawl broke out between Shakur and Mr Davis's nephew, Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson, at the MGM Grand hotel-casino following a heavyweight championship boxing match. It pitted East Coast members of a Bloods gang sect associated with rap music mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight against West Coast members of a Crips sect that Mr Davis has said he led in Compton, California.

Prosecutors allege Shakur's killing stemmed from a rivalry and competition for dominance in a musical genre that, at the time, was dubbed 'gangsta rap'.