Jury selection began Monday in Clark County District Court in the murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former South Side Compton Crips leader accused of orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip. Davis, 63, faces a single count of murder with a deadly weapon with intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. He has pleaded not guilty and faces a potential life sentence without parole if convicted. About 75 potential jurors were summoned Monday; selection is expected to take several days, with the trial before Judge Carli Kierny expected to run four to five weeks. Prosecutors do not contend Davis fired the shots — and the trial may never establish who did. They plan to prove he was the “shot caller” who obtained the gun and handed it into the back seat of the white Cadillac that pulled alongside Shakur’s BMW on September 7, 1996 — retaliation, authorities say, for the beating of Davis’s nephew by Shakur and his entourage at the MGM Grand hours earlier. The three other men in the Cadillac have all died; under Nevada law, Davis can be convicted of murder without having pulled the trigger. What revived a case that sat cold for nearly three decades was the defendant’s own media trail. Police said they lacked the evidence to charge Davis until he began narrating his role publicly — in on-camera interviews beginning in 2018 and in his 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legend,” which describes obtaining the handgun and tossing it into the Cadillac’s back seat. He was arrested in 2023. The state expects to call 35 to 45 witnesses, potentially including Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight, who was driving Shakur the night of the shooting. Also on the list is Leonard Jefferson, the passerby who pulled up beside the BMW at a red light and snapped what became the last known photograph of Shakur alive — an image that has itself become one of the case’s most recognizable pieces of evidence. Courtroom seats will go by daily lottery, with an overflow room on the courthouse’s second floor carrying a live feed of the proceedings.