Leonard Jefferson, a Los Angeles photographer, testified this week as the prosecution's first witness in the murder trial of Duane "Keefe D" Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Jefferson said he took the final photograph of Shakur on Sept. 7, 1996—minutes before Shakur was shot and killed on Flamingo Road in Las Vegas. Jefferson testified that he was waiting for a pizza order near the Las Vegas Strip when he noticed a car with shiny rims stopped at a red light next to him.
Shakur was in the passenger seat; Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight was driving. Jefferson told the court that Shakur said they were headed to a club. Acting on impulse, Jefferson photographed the two men.
The photograph shows Shakur leaning slightly out of the window. It is the last known image of the rapper alive.
