McDonald – a former member of rival Blood street gang offshoot Mob Piru and enforcer at Suge Knight’s Death Row Records label, which represented Shakur – testified that he was not with Shakur when the shooting took place.

He was repeatedly questioned by Davis’s defence attorney Michael Sanft about whether he witnessed the attack and whether he knew who was there at the time.

Under oath, McDonald raised his voice and arms, saying he didn’t want to answer many of these questions because it “wouldn’t be good” for the defendant. McDonald looked over at Davis at one point, saying, “talk to your lawyer man, this dude is tripping”.

“I don’t want to send him to prison, even though we don’t like each other. I don’t want to send you to prison,” he said looking at Davis, who sat in a suit, stone faced.

“You’re asking me questions that can hurt him,” McDonald told Sanft, flabbergasted.

When pressed, McDonald explained that even though he was not there to witness the shooting, those who were there that night within Shakur’s entourage had quickly communicated who was responsible.

“It was a gang war. People were getting hurt. People were being sought,” he said. “Orlando (Anderson), him and certain other people were being sought because people wanted to kill them.”

He said people wanted revenge against those responsible for Shakur’s death.

“They were the main subjects of a gang war – they were in the middle,” McDonald said of Davis and his nephew, noting he, too, was part of this gang war.