Tupac murder trial latest: Rapper 'should have kept his hands to himself'

Live blog, Friday 21 August 2026, updated through 20:27 UK.

We're almost a full week into the long-awaited Tupac murder trial. We're back in court after another dramatic day in the case. Follow the latest.

[13:09] Documentary filmmaker tells court of interviews with Keffe D in 2017. Leonard Jefferson has now been excused and the next witness is up. This is Mario Diaz, a filmmaker who makes documentaries and is also a showrunner. Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo is asking the questions now and asks Diaz about a documentary on Death Row Records. Diaz says this was a job to direct a six-part series about the label.

[14:10] Filmmaker quizzed on how Keffe D's information was verified - and decision to use 'secret' proffer. Defence lawyer Michael Sanft asks if, when filmmaker Mario Diaz interviewed Duane Davis, it was conducted in a way that he promised to tell the truth. "No," Diaz replies. "But, I mean, I would assume that he would tell me the truth." Asked if he verified the information Davis gave him, he says, "yes, of course", that he confirmed with former LAPD detective Greg Kading and fellow filmmaker Mike Dorsey, who had followed the case. Diaz says he interviewed other people who "could corroborate certain aspects of his story as well", including "Mob James".

[14:30] Keffe D said 'I was the boss' - and gang was 'friends' with Diddy's record label. After a short break, the court is now hearing audio from another interview investigators had with Duane "Keffe D" Davis, this one in 2009. Former LAPD detective Daryn Dupree, who testified earlier this week, is among those present for this interview, along with Detective Long, and an attorney for Davis. Asked about the fight at the MGM Grand, at which Davis's nephew Orlando Anderson was beaten by a group including Knight and Tupac, he says: "They jumped on him... his arm was out of the socket."

[15:24] Davis told investigators his nephew 'went to pee on his hands' to remove gun powder. The 2009 audio continues with investigators questioning Duane "Keffe D" Davis about Tupac Shakur's shooting. He says his nephew, Orlando Anderson, fired the gun about five or six times and that he thinks he saw a bullet go into Suge Knight's head. He says he saw Tupac, who was in the front passenger seat, trying to get into the backseat of their BMW. He thought it was just Knight who had been hit at first, he says, and he thought he "was dead". Afterwards, he says Knight made a U-turn and he was driving "erratic".