Star Witness Delivers Fiery Testimony in Tupac Shakur Murder Trial
James McDonald said he did not witness the shooting and refused to say who was responsible, growing heated before being excused from the stand.
- On Tuesday, witness James McDonald, a former Death Row Records associate and Bloods gang member, became hostile during day two of Duane Keith Keffe Davis' trial for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, refusing to identify suspects.
- Prosecutors allege Davis, a former South Side Compton Crips member, provided the gun and instructed fellow gang members to shoot Shakur and Death Row Records co-founder Marion Suge Knight as retaliation for an earlier altercation.
- When the defense attorney pressed McDonald to name those responsible, he yelled from the stand: "Treat me as a hostile witness. You're not gonna talk to me and tell me as a grown man what I have to do up here."
- Speaking directly to Davis, McDonald said "I dont want to send you to prison," while maintaining he was not "in the entourage when Tupac got shot" before being excused from the stand.
- Davis, age 63, pleaded not guilty and maintains he was not in Nevada on September 7, 1996; if convicted on murder charges, he faces life imprisonment without parole in a trial expected to last four to six weeks.
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Star witness delivers fiery testimony in Tupac Shakur murder trial
(CNN)- Fiery testimony from a key witness highlighted the second day of the murder trial of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, who is charged in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. James McDonald, the former head of security at Club 662, clashed at times with attorneys while testifying about the night Shakur was fatally shot in Las Vegas. “You ask me something, I’m gonna be honest about it,” McDonald said. “You ask me something I don’t want to talk abo…
Ex-Gangster James "Mob James" McDonald was summoned to the stand on the second day of the trial for the murder of Tupac.
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