When his testimony ended, McDonald addressed Davis: “What you are going through brother is what you going through. I don’t want to be a part of it.”
Reggie Wright Jr – a member of Shakur’s security detail who in 1997 became general manager of Death Row Records – also provided testimony on Tuesday.
Days before the trial, Davis said that the evidence instead points to Wright, a former Compton police officer.
His defence team asked Wright about his role protecting Suge Knight, who was in the vehicle with Shakur at the time of the shooting, and asked about how his role grew after Knight left Death Row records.
“And then you became general manager,” Sanft said, noting that after Knight was out of the picture, Wright took over Death Row Records, which was valued at $3m.
The high-profile case is expected to continue on Wednesday. Shakur’s murder had largely gone cold until Davis himself made public statements about the case, co-authoring a memoir where he said he was a passenger in the vehicle that fired into Shakur’s car and had supplied the gun that was used to kill him.
Davis has since distanced himself from the memoir, saying he didn’t write all of it and that parts were fictionalised to sell more copies.
