Tupac Shakur murder trial: ‘You better treat me as a hostile witness,’ Suge Knight associate testifies – latest updates
And I think that’s where I’m about to know now, because you’re asking me questions--I can’t answer those questions.”Right after Shakur’s shooting, McDonald said he immediaely left Las Vegas for California. “We knew we were going to have neighborhood issues,” he said. “It’s time to go and protect your home front.
- ▪And I think that’s where I’m about to know now, because you’re asking me questions--I can’t answer those questions.”Right after Shakur’s shooting, McDonald said he immediaely left Las Vegas for California.
- ▪“We knew we were going to have neighborhood issues,” he said.
- ▪“It’s time to go and protect your home front.
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17.48 EDT'You better treat me as a hostile witness,' Suge Knight associate testifiesMinutes after testifying that it was “impossible” that Reggie Wright Jr was involved in the murder of Tupac Shakur, James McDonald, a former associate of Death Row Records executive Suge Knight, refused to go into detail about the beating of Orlando Anderson at the MGM Hotel, and how that beating fueled ongoing tensions between rival factions in Compton.“Me or anybody else bringing up the dead is wrong,” McDonald said.“I told every attorney that tried to get me in here, you’d better treat me as a hostile witness.
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