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In late April 2026 the The estate of rapper Tupac Shakur filed a continues its wrongful‑death civil suit in Los Angeles, naming against Duane “Keefe D” Davis and unidentified “John Does” as defendants and alleging that those involved in the 1996 killing have never been held accountable. A second filing in early May cited new evidence from the 2025 Netflix documentary *Sean Combs: The Reckoning*, which claims Does,” while Davis was offered faces a seven‑figure sum by Sean “Diddy” Combs to arrange the murder. Also criminal trial in May, prosecutors announced that Las Vegas scheduled for August 10, 2026. Recent developments include the introduction of audio recordings from Davis’s prison phone calls, in which he appears to describe prosecutors say depict his role in the 1996 shooting, would be introduced at his criminal trial set for August 10. Davis’s defense has called the recordings unreliable. By late June a pre‑trial hearing addressed and the admissibility admission of police interview transcripts and excerpts from Davis’s 2019 memoir *Compton Street Legend*; Judge Carli Kierny ruled the memoir and Davis’s his 2008‑2009 Las Vegas police statements could be admitted. statements. On July 28, Nevada District Court Judge Carli Kierny further permitted ruled that a 2008 recorded police interview as evidence. The Nevada judge confirmed – in which Davis claims he was in the white Cadillac that stopped beside Shakur and that he supplied the interview, firearm – is admissible. The decision overturns the defense’s claim of promised confidentiality and aligns with material previously cited in former LAPD detective Greg Kading’s book *Murder Rap* and the documentary *Sean Combs: The Reckoning*, is admissible. In Reckoning*. Prosecutors will present the interview Davis states he was in alongside the white Cadillac that pulled up beside Shakur prison‑call recordings, and that he supplied the handgun used in the drive‑by, though he does not name the shooter. The ruling allows the interview to be presented at the trial, which trial is expected to last run about four weeks. The defense maintains the interview was promised confidentiality, while prosecutors argue there is no legal basis for exclusion. If convicted, Davis faces life imprisonment without parole.