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Suspect charged in rapper Tupac Shakur's fatal shooting makes

first court appearance in Las Vegas

By Rio Yamat and Ken Ritter home, drawing renewed
Associated Press attention to one of hip-hop
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A self- music's most enduring mys-
described gangster who teries. Prosecutors allege
police and prosecutors say Shakur's killing stemmed
masterminded the shoot- from a rivalry and compe-
ing death of Tupac Shakur tition for dominance in a
in Las Vegas in 1996 made musical genre that, at the
his first court appearance time, was dubbed “gang-
Wednesday on a murder sta rap.” It pitted East
charge. Coast members of a Bloods
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, gang sect associated with
stood shackled, wearing a rap music mogul Marion
dark-blue jail uniform and “Suge” Knight against West
plastic orange slippers. He Coast members of a Crips
was scheduled to be ar- sect that Davis has said he
raigned on the charge led in Compton, California.
Wednesday, but the hear- Tension escalated in Las
ing was cut short after he Vegas the night of Sept. 7,
asked Judge Tierra Jones 1996, when a brawl broke
to postpone the hearing out between Shakur and
while he retains counsel in Davis' nephew, Orlando
Las Vegas. Jones resched- “Baby Lane” Anderson,
uled the arraignment for at the MGM Grand hotel-
Oct. 19. Duane "Keffe D" Davis is led into the courtroom at the Regional Justice Center on Wednesday, Oct. casino following a heavy-
“Law enforcement hasn’t 4, 2023, in Las Vegas. weight championship box-
cared for a long time,” (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, Pool) ing match won by Mike
Mopreme Shakur, Tupac Tyson.
Shakur’s stepbrother, told last week near his home after the hearing that he tell-all memoir, “Compton Knight and Shakur went to
The Associated Press over in suburban Henderson. A is Davis’ longtime personal Street Legend.” the fight, as did members
Zoom from his home in Los few hours after his arrest attorney and is helping him “There’s one thing that’s for of the South Side Crips,"
Angeles. “Young Black men last Friday a grand jury in- find a Nevada lawyer. sure when living that gang- prosecutor Marc DiGiaco-
often deal with delayed jus- dictment was unsealed in “I have worked with him for ster lifestyle,” he wrote. mo said last week in court.
tice because we’re often Clark County District Court more than two decades,” “You already know that the “And (Knight) brought his
viewed as the criminals. So charging him with murder. Faal said. “But at this point stuff you put out is going entourage, which involved
justice has been delayed Grand jurors also voted I do not have a comment.” to come back; you never Mob Piru gang members.”
for quite some time — in to add sentencing en- Davis denied a request know how or when, but After the casino brawl,
spite of all the eyes, all the hancements for the use of from the AP for an interview there’s never a doubt that Knight drove a BMW with
attention, despite the ce- a deadly weapon and al- from jail where he's being it’s coming.” Shakur in the front pas-
lebrity of my brother.” leged gang activity. If Da- held without bond. Davis’ own comments re- senger seat. The car was
“It’s already been 27 years vis is convicted, that could Davis had been a long- vived the police investiga- stopped at a red light near
and then the legal process, add decades to his sen- known suspect in the case, tion that led to the indict- the Las Vegas Strip when
so-called wheels of justice, tence. Los Angeles-based and publicly admitted his ment, police and prosecu- a white Cadillac pulled up
moves historically slow," he attorney Edi Faal told the role in the killing in inter- tors said. In mid-July, Las on the passenger side and
said. Davis was arrested AP in a brief phone call views ahead of his 2019 Vegas police raided Davis’ gunfire erupted. q

Julia Ormond sues Harvey Weinstein

saying he assaulted her; accuses CAA,

Disney, Miramax of enabling

graced movie producer to file past the state's nor- against her and negatively
Harvey Weinstein of sexual- mal deadlines. affecting her career after
ly assaulting her in 1995 and In her suit, Ormond says she she confronted him weeks
then hindering her career. was a star on the rise when later. The British actress says
Ormond, who also accuses she met Weinstein in 1994. she told her U.S. agents at
The Walt Disney Co., Mira- She says she kept in touch the time, Creative Artists
max and her former agents with him to discuss scripts Agency, but received no
Julia Ormond, a cast member in the television series
"Incorporated," arrives at the NBCUniversal Television Critics of knowing Weinstein was and projects, and in 1995 support and was advised
Association summer press tour on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, in a problem but doing noth- entered into a production not to take any legal ac-
Beverly Hills, Calif. ing about it, filed the case agreement with Miramax, tion or other steps. She
(Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File) in state Supreme Court in where he was co-chair- accuses CAA, Disney and
Manhattan under the Adult man. She accuses him of Miramax, saying that they
By D. Hajela and A. Dalton Pitt and Harrison Ford in Survivors Act, a law passed committing sexual battery knew Weinstein presented
NEW YORK (AP) — Julia Or- the 1990s before her spot- last year that allows a tem- against her in December a danger to women but
mond, who starred in films light faded, filed a lawsuit porary window for those 1995 after a business meet- did nothing to stop him or
alongside the likes of Brad Wednesday accusing dis- who allege sexual assault ing, and then retaliating to help her. q