Notorious B.I.G. was leaving a music industry party at the Petersen Automotive Museum, sitting in the front passenger seat of a Chevrolet Suburban, when his killer pulled up alongside in a dark Chevy Impala.
As the SUV idled at a stoplight, the gunman opened fire, hitting the 24-year-old rap star, who was also known as Biggie Smalls, four times. He was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 1 a.m. on March 9, 1997.
The fatal round entered his right hip and ripped through his liver, lung and heart.
Despite numerous investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department, lawsuits, books and a plethora of allegations, the 20-year-old slaying of the performer whose real name was Christopher Wallace remains officially unsolved.
Wallace's slaying came just six months after rap rival Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas. The two killings would become forever intertwined as observers theorized that the violence was fueled by an East Coast-West Coast rivalry.
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In Wallace's case, many of those who investigated the killing say the likely culprits are long-gone gangsters. Exactly who they were and what motivated them remains a mystery.
'The shooter is most likely dead. You cannot ask him who paid him,' said Kevin McClure, a former LAPD captain who oversaw the investigation and is now the Montebello police chief. 'We don't know who gave the money.'
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McClure shut down a task force on the killing in 2010 because it was spinning its wheels. 'We kept pounding the doors on the same cold leads,' he said.
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Like many cold cases, however, someone may come forward in the future with answers, McClure said.
As with many of L.A.'s legendary unsolved cases, it is assigned to a member of the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. Det. Daryn Dupree currently has the Wallace investigation. Dupree also worked on the Grim Sleeper serial killer case.
'It is an open case. We are still actively investigating, and we constantly discuss the disposition of the case with the district attorney's office,' said Capt. William Hayes, who heads the division.
The slaying has spawned a cottage industry of books, documentaries and magazine articles exploring possible conspiracy theories. A couple of movies are also in the works.
Among the theories pushed by one now-deceased LAPD detective was that dirty cops connected to the Rampart corruption scandal were involved in the slaying.
In 2006, then-LAPD Chief William J. Bratton, who was fed up with speculation over the killing, launched the task force of senior homicide detectives in an effort to hunt down the killer.
The probe followed a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the city by the rapper's mother, Voletta Wallace, and other relatives.
In court documents, the family alleged that ex-LAPD Officer David A. Mack conspired with rap impresario Marion 'Suge' Knight, then the owner of Death Row Records, to have Wallace ambushed. The family contended in the suit that Mack arranged for a college friend to carry out the attack. Mack, the college friend and Knight have all denied any involvement. The family dropped the lawsuit in 2010.
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The theory that the three conspired to kill Wallace was first advanced in 1998 by then-LAPD Det. Russell Poole, an investigator in the Robbery-Homicide Division who worked about a year on the case. Poole will be played by Johnny Depp in an upcoming movie on the investigation.
Poole began scrutinizing Mack after he was arrested in December 1997 on suspicion of bank robbery. Mack was later convicted of robbery and is serving a 14-year prison term. Poole quit the police force in 1999 after a series of disputes with his superiors. He died in 2015.
The 2006 LAPD task force examined two different theories for the killing. The first hypothesis was that Wallace was killed by a member of Compton's vicious Southside Crips gang as part of a bicoastal rap feud linked to Shakur's death, law enforcement sources said.
The investigators developed a second theory that Wallace was killed in retaliation for Shakur's death by a Blood gang member hired by Knight.
Knight, who is now facing a separate murder charge, has repeatedly denied any involvement in Wallace's killing. The task force worked with a 72-volume 'murder book,' the collection of evidence in the case, that was kept in its own office. Task force member Greg Kading, in his book 'Murder Rap,' alleged that now-deceased Wardell 'Poochie' Fouse — a Mob Piru Blood gang member from Compton — shot Wallace. He wrote that the killing was revenge for Shakur's slaying and that powerful East Coast hip-hop figures were behind the Vegas slaying.
While no one has ever been arrested in Shakur's death, Las Vegas police named Orlando Anderson, a reputed Crips member, as the suspect in the slaying. Anderson died a year later in a drug-related shootout at a Compton carwash.
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A 122 page file recently released by the FBI suggests that West Coast rappers Tupac Shakur and Eric 'Eazy E' Wright were threatened and extorted by a group considered a domestic terrorist organization by federal authorities.
In the file, FBI agents described an extortion scheme purported against the late hip hop legends in which they would receive death threats via an anonymous telephone caller at which point the Jewish Defense League, which is described by the FBI as 'a violent right-wing terrorist group,' would step in and offer protection for money.
The FBI stated that the investigation began on Sept. 11, 1996, two days before Shakur would die in a Las Vegas hospital from gunshot wounds he suffered on Sept. 7, when an unnamed source came forward with information and enough evidence to start the investigation.
The file's redacted portion leaves more questions than answers, as many released FBI documents do, but does make reference to a lawsuit involving Wright's Ruthless records company. In the settlement of the lawsuit, an unnamed person received $1.5 million from the record label and according to the language in the FBI file, appears to have been tied into the alleged extortion scheme.
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The investigation never lead to charges being filed against anyone and the file itself ends with clippings of several articles written about Shakur's shooting and subsequent death in 1996.
Wright, who founded the hip hop group N.W.A. along with fellow artists Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, MC Ren and Arabian Prince, died of AIDS-related complications on March 26, 1995, only a month after he was diagnosed with the illness.
It has been reported that after Andre 'Dr. Dre' Young left N.W.A. and Ruthless Records, Wright and Jerry Heller, manager/co-founder of Ruthless Records, enlisted the assistance of the Jewish Defense League in response to threats from Dr. Dre's new record label's CEO, Marion 'Suge' Knight.
Shakur was shot on Las Vegas Blvd. just after 11 p.m. on Sept. 7, 1996, a short while after he left the Mike Tyson fight. He was seated in the passenger's seat of Knight's BMW and a larger convoy of friends and associates were in front and behind that car.
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Shakur's death remains largely a mystery despite several investigations into who was behind the homicide.
Christopher 'Notorious BIG' Wallace, left, and one-time friend Tupac Shakur pictured before their relationship soured and both men were murdered in their 20s.
When the documents were released by the FBI this week, there were initially hopes that they would shed some light on the federal investigation into the murder. A week ago, the FBI released documents pertaining to the death of the Christopher 'Notorious BIG' Wallace.
The heavily-redacted documents did reveal that Wallace was killed with rare Gecko 9mm ammunition which is only produced in Germany and sold in California and New Jersey in the U.S. The documents also revealed that when the investigation took the obvious angle of linking the March 9, 1997 murder to that of rival-rapper Shakur's untimely death, the FBI learned there were some of the same people present at both murder scenes.
To this day, neither homicide has been solved or resulted in anyone being held accountable.
Rare footage from the crime scene in Las Vegas where 2Pac was shot on Sept. 7, 1996