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Tupac Shakur’s Stepbrother Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit, 29 Years After Murder
Maurice Shakur said in a complaint filed against Duane Keith Davis, who was charged in 2023 with the rapper’s murder, that the “threads are starting to come together.”
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The rapper Tupac Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. He died days later at the age of 25.
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Derrick Bryson Taylor
April 29, 2026
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The stepbrother of the rapper Tupac Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Duane Keith Davis, who was charged with Mr. Shakur’s murder in 2023 after a decades-long investigation failed to make meaningful progress.
The stepbrother, Maurice Shakur, whose stage name is Mopreme, filed the complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, seeking unspecified damages against Mr. Davis, who is known as Keffe D, and “John Does 1 to 100,” whom the complaint describes as “individuals who may have participated in planning, financing, directing or carrying out the conspiracy.”
According to the complaint, lawyers for Maurice Shakur plan to amend the filing with the names and actions of the Doe defendants once those details are made available through discovery. The lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
A lawyer for Mr. Davis also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Alex Abdo, the litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said that lawsuits often named “John Does” when a plaintiff knows or suspects that unidentified people are responsible for the conduct they’re complaining about.
“The idea is that the unknown individuals will be identified in the course of the case,” Mr. Abdo said.
Tupac Shakur, one of the most prominent musical artists of the 1990s, was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on Sept. 7, 1996, after attending a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon. The rapper
died days later
at the age of 25.
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