Duane Davis, a 63-year-old former gang leader, was found guilty of murder with a deadly weapon by a jury on August 31 in connection with the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. ^[1] Tupac Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada, on September 7, 1996, and died from his injuries six days later. ^[2] Duane Davis wrote in his 2019 memoir, Compton Street Legend, that he was at the scene of Shakur's killing and detailed the shooting. ^[3] Prosecutors argued during the trial that Duane Davis was the on-the-ground, on-site commander of the effort to kill Tupac Shakur. ^[4] The trial relied largely on Duane Davis's own account of the shooting, which was shared in a memoir and interviews with police officers and documentary filmmakers. ^[5] There was no physical evidence, described as a smoking gun, presented in the trial to link Duane Davis to the shooting. ^[6] Duane Davis and his attorney Michael Sanft were led back to the courtroom to hear his sentencing date after the jury found him guilty. ^[7]