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TIL in Sept 2023 a grand jury indicted Duane Davis for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. He allegedly planned and ordered the hit in retaliation for his late nephew, Orlando Anderson, being beaten in a casino earlier that night. He's reportedly the last surviving participant of Shakur's murder.

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