Suge Knight speaks out ahead of Tupac Shakur murder suspect's trial

“This trial has nothing to do with me," Knight told ABC News. He's been a dominant persona in the world of hip-hop for more than three decades. He also remains the only living eyewitness to the drive-by assassination of Tupac Shakur. And from prison, Marion "Suge" Knight said he still refuses to cooperate with law enforcement as prosecutors try to convict the only man ever charged in connection with the 1996 shooting of the legendary rapper. "This trial has nothing to do with me and if somebody brings me there, it's gonna hurt whoever brings me there. I promise you that," Knight said in an interview last week with ABC News.

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He died six days later. "You have people who wasn't there, wasn't in the car, but they're telling the story," Knight told ABC News last week. But then, in September 2023, authorities arrested Davis, a self-confessed longtime leader of the Southside Crips from the Los Angeles community of Compton.

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