Adrian Kempe scores late, and the Kings beat the Lightning 2-1 for a 4-game winning streak

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adrian Kempe broke a tie with 5:48 to play and the Los Angeles Kings beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 on Saturday night for their fourth consecutive victory.

Mikey Anderson scored in the first period and Darcy Kuemper made 34 saves for the Kings, who shut out Tampa Bay over the final 58 1/2 minutes. Los Angeles has won 12 of 16.

Captain Victor Hedman scored and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 19 shots for Tampa Bay, which has lost three straight games for the first time in two months.

Hedman, who was bloodied by a puck to the head Thursday at San Jose, scored just 70 seconds after the opening faceoff in Los Angeles. The star defenseman's powerful shot ramped off Anderson's stick and beat Kuemper for his fifth goal of the season.

Anderson answered several minutes later with a long shot through traffic for his career high-tying fifth goal.

Lightning: The NHL’s highest-scoring team is in a mini-slump with just four goals during its three-game skid.

Kings: They've earned a point in 14 of 16 games since late November. Kuemper was outstanding to lead a strong, physical defensive performance.

The winning goal was created by Alex Turcotte, who capitalized when Nick Perbix fell down while skating toward a pass from Brayden Point in the Lightning's end. Turcotte outskated Perbix to the puck before dropping a pass to Kempe, who fired home his 19th goal.

Lewis returned from a 12-game injury absence and played in his 1,000th career NHL game. The 37-year-old forward won the Stanley Cup with Los Angeles in 2012 and 2014, and he returned to the Kings last season after three years away.

The Lightning take the I-10 freeway to the I-5 south to face the Ducks on Sunday night. The Kings get three days off before hosting the Flames on Wednesday night.

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Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy, right, deflects a shot as Los Angeles Kings left wing Warren Foegele, center, is shoves to the ice by defenseman Erik Cernak during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Darren Raddysh, left, moves the puck while Los Angeles Kings left wing Warren Foegele puts pressure on him during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy makes a glove safe during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Los Angeles Kings, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper makes a glove save during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Los Angeles Kings left wing Kevin Fiala, left, and Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Mitchell Chaffee scuffle during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Tampa Bay Lightning center Luke Glendening, left, and Los Angeles Kings defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov fall as they vie for the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — An ex-gang leader is seeking to have all the charges against him dismissed in the 1990s killing of rap music icon Tupac Shakur.

Attorney Carl Arnold filed the motion on Monday in the District Court of Nevada to dismiss charges against Duane Davis in the 1996 shooting of Shakur. The motion alleges “egregious” constitutional violations because of a 27-year delay in prosecution. The motion also asserts a lack of corroborating evidence and failure to honor immunity agreements granted to Davis by federal and local authorities.

“The prosecution has failed to justify a decades-long delay that has irreversibly prejudiced my client," Arnold said in a news release. "Moreover, the failure to honor immunity agreements undermines the criminal justice system’s integrity and seriously questions this prosecution.”

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the filing. He has said evidence against Davis is strong and it will be up to a jury to decide the credibility of Davis’ accounts of the shooting including those in a 2019 memoir.

Davis is originally from Compton, California. He was arrested in the case in September 2023 near Las Vegas. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and has sought to be released since shortly after his arrest.

Davis is accused of orchestrating and enabling the shooting that killed Shakur and wounded rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight after a brawl at a Las Vegas Strip casino involving Shakur and Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson.

Authorities have said that the gunfire stemmed from competition between East Coast members of a Bloods gang sect and West Coast groups of a Crips sect, including Davis, for dominance in a genre known at the time as “gangsta rap.”

In interviews and a 2019 tell-all memoir that described his life as a leader of a Crips gang sect in Compton, Davis said he obtained a .40-caliber handgun and handed it to Anderson in the back seat of a car from which he and authorities say shots were fired at Shakur and Knight in another car at an intersection near the Las Vegas Strip. Davis didn’t identify Anderson as the shooter.

Shakur died a week later in a nearby hospital. He was 25. Knight survived and is serving a 28-year prison sentence in connection with the killing of a Compton man in 2015.

Anderson denied involvement in Shakur’s death and died in 1998 at age 23 in a shooting in Compton. The other two men in the car are also dead.

A Las Vegas police detective testified to a grand jury that police do not have the gun that was used to shoot at Shakur and Knight, nor did they find the vehicle from which shots were fired.

FILE - Duane "Keffe D" Davis arrives in Clark County District Court, Nov. 7, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1996. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)