“I sang because they promised I wouldn’t be prosecuted,” Davis wrote in his memoirs.
On the night of the shooting, Shakur was traveling in the passenger seat of a BMW driven by Marion Knight, the rap mogul known as Suge, to an after-fight afterparty at Club 662, a new venue owned by her record label Death row is supported.
Davis, a self-proclaimed member of the Crips, wrote in his memoirs that he, Anderson and others armed themselves and waited in the nightclub parking lot, hoping to arrest Shakur and Knight, who were associated with the Bloods, because of the earlier violence to speak out.
When the rapper didn’t show, Davis said, the group waiting for him headed to their hotel, where they encountered Shakur and Knight chatting with fans at a red light. “While they were stuck in traffic, we slowly rolled past the long line of luxury cars they had in their trailer, looking at each one until we pulled up to the front vehicle and found who we were looking for,” Davis wrote.
Davis said Shakur’s crew committed “the greatest disrespect when they kicked and knocked down my nephew” – an attack intended in retaliation for an earlier robbery of one of Shakur’s friends. In his memoirs, Davis described the streets’ “strict rules” by which its participants “live, kill and die.”
“The deaths of Tupac and Biggie were a direct result of this violation of the law and the explosive consequences when the powerful worlds of the streets, entertainment and corrupt law enforcement collide,” he wrote.
Davis added that he was considered the “prime suspect” in both murders and called writing about the events in his book “therapeutic.”