{"id":77559,"date":"2026-08-18T11:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-gang-leader-in-court-accused-of-orchestrating-1996-killing-of-rap-star\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:54:51","slug":"tupac-shakur-murder-trial-gang-leader-in-court-accused-of-orchestrating-1996-killing-of-rap-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-gang-leader-in-court-accused-of-orchestrating-1996-killing-of-rap-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Tupac Shakur murder trial: gang leader in court accused of orchestrating 1996 killing of rap star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Davis is only man ever charged in relation to drive-by shooting of Shakur in Las Vegas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/aug\/17\/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-explained\">What we know about Tupac Shakur\u2019s death and what to expect from murder trial<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re catching up now on what\u2019s happened so far in th Tupac Shakur murder trial in Las Vegas, here is video of key evidence presented to the Las Vegas jury yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>The court heard brief testimony from <strong>Thomas Kern<\/strong>, who was a crime scene analyst for the Las Vegas police department in 1996, who was present at the autopsy of Tupac Shakur, and is authenticating evidence from the autopsy. Kern did not face any cross-examination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/18\/tupac-shakur-gang-killing-murder-trial-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Davis is only man ever charged in relation to drive-by shooting of Shakur in Las Vegas What we know about Tupac Shakur\u2019s death and what to expect from murder trial If you\u2019re catching up now on what\u2019s happened so far in th Tupac Shakur murder trial in Las Vegas, here is video of key &#8230; <a title=\"Tupac Shakur murder trial: gang leader in court accused of orchestrating 1996 killing of rap star\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/tupac-shakur-murder-trial-gang-leader-in-court-accused-of-orchestrating-1996-killing-of-rap-star\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tupac Shakur murder trial: gang leader in court accused of orchestrating 1996 killing of rap star\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}