2Pac’s Sister Sekyiwa Shakur Says Family Has ‘Low Expectations’ for Justice in Murder Trial

Sekyiwa Shakur says her family is approaching the long-awaited 2Pac murder trial with limited faith that the criminal justice system will deliver the accountability they have sought for decades.

2Pac’s sister Sekyiwa Shakur has opened up about her family’s expectations as Duane “Keffe D” Davis stands trial in Las Vegas over the rapper’s 1996 killing. Speaking with Law&Crime Network, Shakur said the family’s history in America has shaped how they view the possibility of justice nearly 30 years after her brother’s death.

Shakur said the family has “no expectations, or low expectations” of the criminal system in the case, pointing to what she described as a broader history of young Black men’s deaths being disregarded. Her comments, reported by Complex, arrive as one of hip-hop’s most closely watched murder cases finally reaches a jury.

The interview also gave Shakur space to reflect on her brother beyond the circumstances of his death. She described the late rapper as “our shining prince” and emphasized the enormous impact he made before dying at just 25, framing his legacy through the people who knew him as well as the generations influenced by his music and ideas.

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Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge tied to the September 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. Prosecutors allege Davis orchestrated the attack after 2Pac and members of his entourage assaulted Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, at the MGM Grand earlier that night, while the defense has challenged the prosecution’s account and the reliability of Davis’ past statements.

The trial has already forced Shakur’s relatives to revisit painful details of the killing. On August 18, jurors were shown autopsy photographs as a forensic pathologist testified about the rapper’s fatal injuries, with members of the family leaving the courtroom during portions of the presentation.

2Pac died on September 13, 1996, six days after he was shot while riding in a vehicle driven by Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight. Davis is the only person ever charged in connection with the killing, and Sekyiwa Shakur’s remarks underscore how the passage of nearly three decades has left the family balancing the prospect of a verdict with a much deeper sense of what justice would mean.