Witness threat claim delays bail hearing for man held over Tupac Shakur killing

Davis is the only person ever charged with a crime in the drive-by shooting that also wounded rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight

Rapper Tupac Shakur was killed in Las Vegas in 1996 (Frank Wiese/AP)

A claim by prosecutors that witnesses may be at risk led a Nevada judge to postpone a bail hearing on Tuesday for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis’s court-appointed lawyers sought the delay to respond to prosecutors’ allegations, filed last week, that jail telephone recordings and a list of names provided to Davis’s family members show that Davis poses a threat to the public if he is released.