Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.
1997 unsolved murder of American rapper / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Christopher George Latore Wallace, an American rapper known professionally as the Notorious B.I.G., was murdered in a drive-by shooting in the early hours of March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles, California. He was 24 years old.
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Location | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Coordinates | 34°03′46.0″N 118°21′41.2″W |
Date | March 9, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-03-09) 12:47 a.m. PST (UTC−08:00) |
Target | Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. "The Notorious B.I.G." |
Attack type | Murder by drive-by shooting, assassination |
Weapon | Blue-steel 9mm pistol (exact model and brand unknown) |
Deaths | 1 (Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. "The Notorious B.I.G.") |
Perpetrators | Unconfirmed |
In 2007, Wallace's mother, Voletta Wallace; his widow, Faith Evans; and his children, T'yanna Jackson and Christopher Jordan "CJ" Wallace, filed a $400 million second wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) alleging that corrupt officers were responsible for Wallace's death.[1] Retired LAPD officer Greg Kading alleged that Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, orchestrated the murder in revenge for the September 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur in a similar drive-by shooting.[2]