He said people wanted revenge against those responsible for Shakur’s murder. McDonald claimed that Davis and his nephew were “the main subjects of a gang war – they were in the middle”, while acknowledging that he was part of the war too.
When addressing Davis again, McDonald said: “What you are going through, brother, is what you [are] going through. I don’t want to be a part of it.”
Reggie Wright Jr – a member of Shakur’s security who became Death Row Records’ general manager in 1997 – also gave testimony in court. In the days ahead of the trial, Davis said that the evidence instead pointed to Wright – who is also a former Compton police officer.
Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996, after a car drove alongside him and opened fire as he travelled from a Mike Tyson boxing match. He died from his injuries six days later.
In his 2019 memoir, Davis claimed that he was a passenger in the car that opened fire on the rapper. He claimed that he gave the gun used in the murder to his nephew, Anderson, who allegedly shot the rapper.
Davis’ legal team called the claims “fiction” and said that the accusations against their client come as a result of a “biased, sloppy and incomplete” police investigation over the past three decades.
The defendant has also distanced himself from the aforementioned book, claiming that sections were fictionalised to sell more copies.
The trial is set to continue over the next few weeks.
