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A former gang member charged in the 1996 murder of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur pleaded not guilty on Thursday (Nov 2) in a Las Vegas court.

Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 60, who police said was long suspected in the murder and began implicating himself in a series of public statements in recent years, responded "not guilty" when asked by Clark County district judge Tierra Jones if he wanted to enter a plea.
Davis was indicted in September by a Clark County grand jury and arrested in Las Vegas for Shakur's drive-by shooting death, a long-unsolved crime that became a defining moment in the history of rap music.
Davis was charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon for his alleged role in leading a group of men to kill Shakur in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas strip.
Shakur, widely regarded as one of rap music's greatest artists, was also one of its most commercially successful, selling more than 75 million records worldwide.
Authorities said Davis orchestrated a plot to avenge the beating of his nephew, Orlando Anderson, inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena by Shakur and members of his entourage on the night of Sept 7, 1996, just hours before the shooting.
At a news conference after Davis' arrest, police showed hotel security footage of several men kicking and punching a person they identified as Anderson near a bank of elevators before security personnel broke up the altercation.

That incident, police said, led to the retaliatory shooting death of Shakur.
After obtaining a gun from an unnamed associate, Davis, along with Anderson and two other men, Terrence Brown and Deandre Smith, got into a white Cadillac and rode off to find the black BMW that was carrying Shakur, police said.
When Davis and the others caught up to Shakur's vehicle, shots were fired from the Cadillac into the passenger side of the BMW. Shakur, struck four times, died in hospital six days later at the age of 25.
Authorities have not said who actually fired the gun at Shakur. The three others in the Cadillac with Davis have all since died.
Shakur was best known for raw lyrics laced with violence, sex and profanity describing life in the ghetto. He was no stranger to trouble, having spent much of the last two and a half years of his life in and out of court, jail or hospitals.
Source: Reuters
说唱歌手图帕克·沙库尔被杀案嫌疑人在拉斯维加斯法庭上不认罪
周四(11 月 2 日),一名因 1996 年谋杀嘻哈明星图帕克·沙库尔(Tupac Shakur)而被指控的前帮派成员在拉斯维加斯法庭上表示无罪。
60 岁的杜安·“凯夫·D”·戴维斯 (Duane "Keffe D" Davis) 长期被怀疑参与了这起谋杀案,近年来开始在一系列公开声明中将自己牵连其中,当克拉克县地区法官蒂拉·琼斯 (Tierra Jones) 询问他是否愿意时,他回答“无罪”。 提出抗辩。
戴维斯于九月被克拉克县大陪审团起诉,并因沙库尔驾车枪击致死而在拉斯维加斯被捕,这是一项长期悬而未决的犯罪行为,成为说唱音乐史上的一个决定性时刻。
戴维斯被指控犯有一项使用致命武器谋杀罪,罪名是他在拉斯维加斯大道附近带领一群人杀害沙库尔。
沙库尔被广泛认为是说唱音乐最伟大的艺术家之一,也是商业上最成功的艺术家之一,在全球销售了超过 7500 万张唱片。
当局表示,戴维斯精心策划了一个阴谋,为 1996 年 9 月 7 日晚,就在枪击事件发生前几个小时,他的侄子奥兰多·安德森 (Orlando Anderson) 在米高梅花园球馆 (MGM Grand Garden Arena) 被沙库尔 (Shakur) 及其随行人员殴打而报仇。
在戴维斯被捕后的新闻发布会上,警方展示了酒店的安保录像,视频中几名男子在电梯附近对一名他们确认为安德森的人拳打脚踢,随后安保人员才驱散了争吵。
警方称,这一事件导致沙库尔被报复性枪杀。
警方称,戴维斯从一名未透露姓名的同伙那里获得一把枪后,与安德森和另外两名男子泰伦斯·布朗和德安德烈·史密斯一起登上一辆白色凯迪拉克,然后骑着车去寻找载着沙库尔的黑色宝马。
当戴维斯和其他人追上沙库尔的车时,凯迪拉克向宝马的乘客侧开枪。 沙库尔被击中四次,六天后在医院去世,年仅 25 岁。
当局尚未透露到底是谁向沙库尔开枪。 与戴维斯一起乘坐凯迪拉克车的其他三人此后均已死亡。
沙库尔最出名的作品是充满暴力、性和脏话的原始歌词,描述贫民窟的生活。 他对麻烦并不陌生,过去两年半的大部分时间都在法庭、监狱或医院里度过。
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