Pathologist Details 2 Fatal Gunshot Wounds in Tupac Trial as Officer Recalls Last Words
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Updated · USA TODAY · Aug 19
Pathologist Details 2 Fatal Gunshot Wounds in Tupac Trial as Officer Recalls Last Words
3 articles · Updated · USA TODAY · Aug 19
Summary
Dr. Lisa Gavin told jurors Tupac Shakur died from gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen, with one bullet entering near his right armpit, passing through a lung and collapsing it.
A second bullet struck Shakur's right thigh, traveled into his abdomen and damaged his intestines; Gavin said he had no head wounds and could not say whether all bullets were the same caliber.
Retired Las Vegas officer Garry Dale testified Shakur repeated, "No, we'll take care of it," in the ambulance after the Sept. 7, 1996 drive-by shooting and did not identify his assailants.
Prosecutors say Duane "Keffe D" Davis supplied the gun and ordered the shooting in retaliation after Shakur and Suge Knight beat Davis' nephew earlier that night.
Davis, indicted in 2023 and the only person ever charged in the killing, has pleaded not guilty; a conviction could bring a life sentence.
After nearly 30 years, will a suspect's own boastful memoir finally close the book on Tupac Shakur’s tragic unsolved murder?
Can prosecutors win a decades-old murder trial when their strongest evidence is the defendant's own self-incriminating interviews rather than physical proof?