Judge says, killer may serve house arrest with electronic monitoring
MORE than 27 years after killing the American rapper Tupac, and more than three months behind bars on murder charges, the killer is set to be released from jail on $750 000, Daily Times has learnt. The bail was set on Tuesday by a Nevada judge, for the former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur in 1996, saying he can serve house arrest with electronic monitoring ahead of trial on a murder charge.
The suspected killer, Davis is believed to be in a position to be able post that amount which initial had been set at 1 million dollars before being reduced.
However, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said he expects Clark County District Judge Carli Kierny to determine whether money posted for bail is legally obtained. The judge did not set a new trial date but called for a status check Feb. 20.Prosecutors Binu Palal and Marc DiGiacomo argued Tuesday that Davis has never left gang life, that his 15 years of admissions about his role in Shakur’s killing show he is guilty of murder, and that a jailhouse phone call in October suggested he poses a threat to witnesses.
“There is one constant,” Palal told the judge. “Mr. Davis has consistently admitted to being architect of the murder.”
DiGiacomo called Davis “a very, very high danger to the community.” The judge, in her ruling, acknowledged that Davis “made a living talking about his past life as a leader of the South Side Crips,” a street gang in his hometown of Compton, California, “and also the killing of Mr. Shakur in graphic detail.” Davis was arrested on September 29 outside his home in suburban Henderson, which Las Vegas police had searched in mid-July and he had pleaded not guilty in November to first-degree murder and has been jailed without bail at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas.
However, prosecutors believe Davis’ own words are strong evidence that he is responsible for the crime, even if he didn’t pull the trigger. DiGiacomo said other people who have described Davis’ role in other media interviews, and to police, corroborate his accounts.
Meanwhile, Davis is the only person still alive who was in the car from which shots were fired, mortally wounding Shakur and wounding rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight. Knight is serving 28 years in a California prison for an unrelated fatal shooting in the Los Angeles area in 2015. Davis maintains he was given immunity from prosecution in 2008 by an FBI and Los Angeles police task force investigating the killings of Shakur in Las Vegas and rival rapper Christopher Wallace, known as The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, six months later in Los Angeles.
Tupac was killed on September 7, 1996 at the age of 25 in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting occurred when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
By Desmond Nleya, Daily Times
