Tupac murder trial: Accused told police in 2008 his nephew fired fatal shots - BBC News

A recording of the interview Duane Davis conducted with detectives was played to the jury.

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Duane "Keffe D" Davis is on trial in Las Vegas

The man accused of orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur told police more than a decade later that he handed the gun used in the drive-by shooting to a passenger who then passed it to his nephew who opened fire on the rapper.

Duane "Keffe D" Davis is on trial in Las Vegas, charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon over the killing of the rap superstar in 1996. On Thursday jurors heard a recording of a police interview with Davis in 2008.

Prosecutors allege that although Davis did not fire the gun that killed Shakur, he ordered the shooting and supplied the deadly weapon to further criminal conduct for the gang he helped lead.

Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty.