Tupac Shakur's dying words revealed in court by cop who rode with him in ambulance: Live updates

By KATRINA SCHOLLENBERGER, US HEAD OF LIVE NEWS Updated: 17:14, 18 August 2026 A retired police officer revealed Tupac Shakur's dying words in his murder trial on Monday.   Garry Dale, a former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer, recalled his interaction with the rapper as he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance after being shot multiple times alongside Death Row Records boss Suge Knight on September 7, 1996.  'I was trying to talk to him to find out what had happened, gather information to see who had fired at them,' Dale told prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo. 'He was still talking, and I was trying to convince him to tell me the name of whoever his assailants were.' Dale testified that Shakur responded: 'No, we'll take care of it.' Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis is on trial for allegedly orchestrating the drive-by shooting in retaliation for Shakur and his entourage’s attack on Davis’ nephew, Orlando Anderson.  Davis, the only person to ever be charged in the hitmaker's shooting, is charged with one count of murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further, or assist a criminal gang, but has entered a not guilty plea. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.  Follow Daily Mail for the latest updates...  Garry Dale, a former Las Vegas Metro Police Department officer, revealed what Tupac told him as he lay dying in an ambulance on the night he was shot. 'I was trying to talk to him to find out what had happened, gather information to see who had fired at them,' he told prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo. 'He was still talking, and I was trying to convince him to tell me the name of whoever his assailants were,' the former officer continued. Dale testified that Tupac Shakur responded to the effect of: 'No, we'll take care of it.' The officer was then excused after a quick cross-examination by the defense yesterday. Davis' defense lawyer Michael Sanft asked Dale if he had written a report about his initial traffic stop of Suge Knight and Shakur's vehicle that night, to which the cop replied: 'No.' The man accused of orchestrating Tupac Shakur's murder personally handed the gun to the rapper's killers in a twisted revenge plot, prosecutors alleged on Monday as one of America's most notorious cold cases finally went before a jury. Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, 63, did not pull the trigger during the infamous 1996 Las Vegas drive-by, prosecutors conceded, but they claim he planned the retaliation, supplied the weapon and set in motion the shooting that killed the 25-year-old hip-hop icon. 'Let's be clear, Duane Davis did not pull the trigger. But he did plan the shooting in retaliation for the beating of his nephew,' Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal told jurors. 'Remarkably, you will learn that from Duane Davis himself.' Tupac's murder suspect 'placed gun in hands of shooter,' jury hears Duane 'Keffe D' Davis allegedly handed the gun to Tupac Shakur's killers as part of a revenge plot after the rapper helped beat his nephew hours earlier, prosecutors told jurors. Defense lawyer Michael Sanft said that his client Duane Davis was known to 'bull****' in court yesterday. The defense argued that the detective who worked on the case did not work hard enough to verify his client's accounts of Tupac's murder in his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend. 'He treats that book like it’s fact,' he said. Sanft said the state relied heavily on questionable statements made by the defendant over the years. Davis 'was never charged for any of what he said during that time period, and it’s because they knew he was full of crap,' Sanft continued. 'Otherwise, they would have.' 'The state cannot prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt the claim that Keffe had anything to do with first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon.'