Fox Anchor Says Duane Davis ‘Seemed to Enjoy the Notoriety’ After Tupac’s Shooting Death

Duane Davis, who wrote a 2019 memoir about his role in the shooting death of Tupac Shakur, “seemed to enjoy the notoriety” that came with that, said Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum.

Of Davis’ behavior since the 1996 shooting, MacCallum said Monday:

He did have a hard time keeping quiet. He seemed to sort of enjoy the notoriety around all of this and there’s a Blood versus Crips sort of gang warfare that really, also, we should point out broke out all over the area after this. Many people were killed in the Crips/Bloods warfare that happened after the shooting. But the prosecutor is like, this jury is going to hear him saying this many times, that he was there, and that he was part of it.

Davis has been accused of orchestrating Shakur’s murder. Though he’s pleaded not guilty, Davis’ own self-published memoir is expected to be a key piece of evidence. Though he spent years pushing the story told in his book, Davis has since recanted those statements.

Per The New York Times, Davis’ defense team is arguing “the prosecution lacks hard evidence to prove Duane Davis’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt” and that the prosecution is relying “far too heavily on dubious statements made by the defendant himself.”

They also pointed to the fact that Davis was not charged with a crime after speaking to police in 2008 and again in 2009.

The prosecution played a recording of Davis speaking to police in 2008 for the jury. Davis told authorities he noticed Shakur the night of September 7, 1996, because he was partially hanging outside of his car. “Tupac, he gave himself away,” Davis said in the clip. “Otherwise, they woulda got away.”

Suge Knight, who founded Shakur’s Death Row Records, could be called as a witness. Knight is currently serving a 28-year sentence for running over and killing a Compton businessman in 2015.

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