The man arrested last year in connection with Tupac’s murder implicated embattled producer Diddy in the rapper’s 1996 slaying, Nevada prosecutors wrote in a recent court filing.
Citing a 179-page court document, Radar Online reported that Clark County prosecutors said suspect Duane Davis, 61, “asserted that the conspiracy to commit the murder began in California between Defendant, Eric ‘Zip’ Martin, and Sean [‘Diddy’] Combs.” They alleged Davis mentioned Combs in interviews with the media and police.
Radar Online reported that prosecutors mentioned Diddy 77 times in the court filing which addressed the infamous East Coast/West Coast rivalry between Combs’ Bad Boy Records and Marion “Suge” Knight’s Death Row Records. Knight is currently serving a 28-year sentence in California for a fatal hit-in-run that occurred during an altercation in 2018.
Knight was in the car with Tupac when he was mortally wounded in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. Tupac died from his injuries days later.
According to Radar Online, Davis claimed that Combs paid Martin $1 million to have Tupac killed. At some point, Davis allegedly went undercover with Los Angeles police during a trip to New York to obtain evidence showing that Combs and Martin were involved in Tupac’s shooting death.
Davis was arrested last September after a grand jury indicted him on charges of murder with the use of a deadly weapon with a gang enhancement. Davis, the uncle of Tupac’s suspected shooter Orlando Anderson, was arrested two months after cops searched his wife’s home in Henderson.
Anderson, who was a rival of Tupac’s, died in an unrelated shooting two years after Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip in 1996. Davis said in a 2018 documentary “Unsolved: The Tupac and Biggie Murders” that he was in the car with the gunman.
On Tuesday, Davis lashed out at the presiding judge who denied his bid for bond. The Associated Press reported that last month, Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny ordered Davis’ team to identify the hip-hop figure who is posting Davis’ $112,500 bond. Though producer Cash “Wack 100” Jones said he is posting the bond, the judge has required proof that he is not acting as a middleman for someone else.
“They’re not only ugly on the outside but they ugly on the inside. They just used something in those boxes! They just used something in those boxes from 1996,” Davis said in court on Tuesday, referring to boxes of evidence from a retired Los Angeles police detective.
According to KLAS, the judge also expressed reluctance to release Davis as he could financially profit from Tupac’s slaying. Davis’ attorney noted that there is no law in Nevada which bars that from happening.
The judge gave Davis’ team until July 30 to prove where the $112,500 bond is coming from. Davis’ trial is scheduled to begin in November.
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