Jury seated in Tupac murder trial; opening statements begin Monday

Tupac Shakur, 25, was fatally shot in a 1996 drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip, dying six days later at the height of his music career.

Nearly thirty years after a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip silenced one of hip-hop's most consequential voices, the law has finally assembled a jury to reckon with the question of who set that violence in motion. Duane Davis, a 63-year-old former gang leader, stands accused not of pulling the trigger but of being the architect — the one who made the calls and provided the means. That a memoir and a series of interviews may now serve as the instruments of accountability reminds us that the stories we choose to tell about ourselves are rarely without consequence.

Jury seated in Tupac murder trial; opening statements begin Monday

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