Tupac’s murder was an act of revenge, prosecutors allege on opening day of trial

Opening statements began Monday after a week of jury selection. Over the next few weeks, witnesses, experts, investigators and possibly even some famous witnesses are scheduled to testify about what happened that night.

Prosecutors allege that Davis acquired a gun and arranged two vehicles to travel to a Las Vegas club, one of them a white Cadillac, in which three other men, including his nephew, Anderson, were traveling.

Palal told jurors that the men decided to “get some alcohol and go back to the Las Vegas Strip and have some fun,” prosecutors said. On their trip, however, they saw a caravan of cars and saw Shakur and Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight in one of the vehicles.

Palal alleges that that’s when Davis and the others in the Cadillac decided to turn around and confront Shakur and Knight. Davis, who was in the passenger seat, he said, passed a gun to Anderson, who fired at Shakur’s car.

Ingrid Stokes, who was present at the time of the shooting, testified that she and her friends were driving through Las Vegas that night, before meeting Knight and Shakur.

Her friend knew Knight and suggested the women follow them to a club, Stokes said. They began driving through Las Vegas, but “there was a car behind us, trying to pass us,” Stokes said.

At one point, they stopped at a traffic light and stopped to change drivers due to concerns about the other vehicle.

“We were upside down, taking off our seat belts, when we heard the shots,” Stokes testified. “All hell broke loose.”