A jury convicted Dwayne Davis of orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, closing a decades-old cold case tied to a violent Las Vegas drive-by shooting. The verdict marks a rare resolution in a long-unsolved celebrity killing that has fueled conspiracy theories for years.
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