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Suge Knight is the only remaining eyewitness to the murder of Tupac Shakur. Knight, who is currently serving out a prison sentence, is a possible witness for the prosecution. He said he has no interest in testifying, though. Here’s why Knight said that the prosecution will be better off if they don’t call on him.

Suge Knight promises to do damage during Tupac’s murder trial 

Knight was present for the drive-by shooting of Shakur in 1996. Decades later, Duane “Keffe D” Davis is going on trial for his murder. Despite his presence at the scene, Knight said he will not give helpful testimony.

“This trial has nothing to do with me and if somebody brings me there, it’s gonna hurt whoever brings me there,” he told ABC News. “I promise you that.”

He said he will damage whatever case either side is attempting to build.

“They make me come there against my will, if Keffe D’s lawyers bring me there, it don’t look good for him. If the prosecution brings me there, it don’t look good for them,” Knight said. “Leave me out of it.” 

While he said he remains loyal to Shakur, he doesn’t want to play a role in putting his alleged killer in prison.

“My loyalty to Tupac can never be compromised,” he said. “Me as a man, what I believe in, can’t be compromised. I’m not there to help [Davis], and I’m damn not there to hurt him.”

Knight believes that snitching on a person is worse than actually killing them.

“To actually get on the stand, and point somebody out, it’s worse than taking a gun and shooting that man in the head. Because if you shoot a person in the head, they die once. If you get on the stand and you snitch on that person, they die a million times,” Knight said. “I am not going to be responsible for sending another man to prison for the rest of his life. If God’s forgiving, who am I to think I’m bigger than God and don’t forgive? Because I’m not.”

Suge Knight isn’t sure how the defense will function in Tupac’s murder trial

Davis pleaded not guilty to murder. Despite this, he has repeatedly admitted to giving the order to open fire on Shakur. Knight said he isn’t sure how the defense will explain this.

“If that’s his defense, he might as well go out with a bang, and walking in, sock his lawyer right in the face because you already put yourself there,” Knight said of Davis’ alibi. “If somebody’s falling off the cliff, and you know this little twig, this little bitty flowers and daisies or whatever is not going to hold you up — but they’re still grabbing and trying. Knowing it’s not gonna hold them up, and that’s what he’s doing.”

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By now, Knight believes that the damage is already done.

“Everything he said and talked about, he already told on himself. So what are you going to do? Erase all the recordings of the interviews he did?” Knight said.

He said he still thinks about the artist

Knight signed Shakur to Death Row Records in 1995. This bonded them.

“There’s not a day that goes by that me, personally, doesn’t think about Tupac, or I miss Tupac,” Knight said. “That’s my brother.”

While he doesn’t want to play a role in the trial, he said he still loves and misses Shakur.

“Tupac is not here,” he said. “Well, I wouldn’t say he’s not here because he’s in everybody’s mind, and the people who knew him, he’s in their heart.”

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