Las Vegas police rushed to the scene of a reported shooting outside the courthouse where Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis continued to face trial for allegedly plotting Tupac Shakur’s murder.
Metro police responded to the 500 block of Casino Center Boulevard in Las Vegas at around 1pm on Tuesday after dispatchers received a report that gunshots were heard inside a local Starbucks, KLAS reports.
But when officers arrived at the scene, they found no victims.
The shooting came as members of Shakur’s family were leaving the courthouse, according to PEOPLE.
Yet the murder trial continued as scheduled.
Prosecutors claim Davis, 63, planned the attack to avenge Shakur’s entourage attacking his nephew, Orlando ‘Baby Lane’ Anderson, a few hours earlier at the MGM Grand following a Mike Tyson fight.
Davis then allegedly supplied the weapon and set in motion the shooting that killed the 25-year-old hip-hop icon, but did not pull the trigger.
He has pleaded not guilty to murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang and faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars if convicted.
As the trial continued into its second day on Tuesday, jurors were shown the casino’s surveillance footage of the alleged fight between members of Shakur’s posse and Anderson.
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis has been accused of plotting the murder of Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur (pictured in 1996), was shot dead in a drive-by that year, when he was aged 25
Davis is facing trial at the Clark County District Court in Nevada
It showed a group of people beating and kicking someone on the ground before Shakur and his entourage raced through the building on September 7, 1996.
The footage then showed security officers and police arriving at the scene and speaking to Anderson, who could be seen wearing a Miami Dolphins jersey.
Kenneth Rios, a security guard who was working patrol at the casino that night, testified on Tuesday that he asked Anderson whether he needed medical assistance and he refused.
‘He was fine,’ Rios testified. ‘He told me basically that a couple of guys that he didn’t know jumped him…I asked him if he wanted to file a report, he said no.’
But just a few hours later Shakur, riding in a black BMW with hip hop mogul Marion ‘Suge’ Knight was gunned down by someone in a white Cadillac carrying Davis, Anderson and two other men inside.
Police responded to a Starbucks near the courthouse on Tuesday after receiving a call about shots fired at around 1pm
Police did not interrupt the court proceedings and the trial continued as scheduled
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
