LAPD reopen ‘Notorious B.I.G’ murder case, may have suspect

[HMG Celebrity News] – Rap music has a reputation for violence, especially among its performers. And after thirteen years the death of rapper Notorious B.I.G is being reopened by law enforcement after new information may give them a suspect.

Christopher Wallace, who used the stage names ‘Biggie Smalls’ or ‘Notorious B.I.G.’ was shot dead on March 9th 1997 while driving away from a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in LA. He was just 24.

At the time, the rap scene was dominated by two music labels – New York’s ‘Bad Boy Entertainment,’ who signed Chris, and ‘Death Row Records,’ run by Marion “Suge” Knight in LA. Tupac was Suge’s top star and was shot dead in Las Vegas the previous September. Police believe Chris’s death was payback for this.

“East Coast was Biggie, West Coast was Tupac,” CNN quotes Chris’s mother, Violetta Wallace as saying. “You’re messing with lives here. Two lives were lost as a result of what? Stupidity?”

According to LAPD insiders, the investigation into Christopher’s murder was “reinvigorated” some weeks ago when new information appeared. And while the sources can’t say what it is, the new info is so strong the LAPD have been joined in their hunt for the killer by the local DA’s office and the FBI.

“Suge Knight ordered the hit,” retired LAPD detective Russell Poole tells the scribes.

Suge was in jail at the time, but Poole believes ‘Death Row’s head of security, Reggie Wright Jr. organized it on his behalf. Both men have denied any involvement.

Poole also says he quit both the case and the LAPD after being blocked in his efforts to locate the killer by other officers – who worked part-time for Death Row.

“I think I was getting too close to the truth,” he said. “I think they feared the truth would be a scandal.”

One LAPD officer whom Poole claims was involved is David Mack. Poole says Mack owned the same type of SUV used by the gunman, and one of Mack’s friends closely resembled a police sketch of the killer.

David Mack was sent to prison for robbing a bank in 1997 – the same year Chris was killed.

In 2002, Violetta Wallace filed a ‘Wrongful death’ lawsuit over her son’s murder. But her attorney now tells CNN the suit is on hold since last April because police need the evidence for the new investigation. So that may be a good sign.

We’ll update you if and when the LAPD release news of developments…