Mack and Officer Rafael Pérez were deeply involved in what came to be known as the Rampart scandal, where widespread police corruption was found among LAPD officers, some of whom had been hired by Death Row Records to serve as security guards. Explore MAY: First museum honoring hip hop music breaks ground in New York The heist netted $722,000, which was never recovered, and informants told the FBI that the loot had been intended as blood money to pay off Muhammad for the hit. Muhammad was reportedly a longtime friend of David Mack, a former Los Angeles police officer on Death Row’s payroll, who served time in prison for a robbery at a Bank of America branch in Los Angeles in August 1997, five months after Biggie’s murder. Explore 2020: Rapper FBG Duck shot to death in brazen Chicago ambush “The story made it sound like I was some mystery assassin who committed this heinous crime and then just dropped off the face of the Earth - which is the furthest thing from the truth,” Muhammad said at the time.Ĭarson, however, said his claims about Muhammad are supported by eyewitness testimony and other circumstantial evidence, including the man’s shadowy connections and events that occurred around the time of the shooting that raised further suspicions. Muhammad, whose birth name is Harry Billups, told The Los Angeles Times in a 2000 interview that “I’m not a murderer, I’m a mortgage broker,” after a story was printed that pointed to his alleged involvement. Muhammad’s name had surfaced previously in the B.I.G murder investigation after he briefly became a suspect in the case, however he proclaimed his innocence and was never charged by authorities. There is no evidence that B.I.G had anything to do with Tupac’s slaying.īoth deaths served as a tragic final act in an ongoing East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry that came to signify rap music throughout the 1990s, and which pitted Knight’s LA-based Death Row Records against the Bad Boy label run by Sean “Puffy” Combs in New York. The amount of money paid for the hit is not known. Suge had an accountant that was part of Death Row Records who helped do the financial side of things to pay for the murders.”Įxplore 2020: Kentucky governor apologizes to Tupac Shakur for thinking jobless claim was joke “Suge was ticked off that his cash cow Tupac was murdered. “Suge Knight financed the murder,” Carson told the Post.
The four 9 mm bullets that struck Wallace were fired from a black Chevy Impala that had pulled up alongside the rapper’s GMC Suburban.
Explore THIS WEEK: Emerging Dallas rapper Lil Loaded dead at 20Ĭhristopher Wallace, who also went by the name Biggie Smalls, was shot to death March 9, 1997, as he sat in a vehicle at a red light after leaving the Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles. Phil Carson, the former federal investigator, identified the hitman as Amir Muhammad, a Nation of Islam convert who got help from rogue officers inside the Los Angeles Police Department who allegedly helped cover up the crime that to this day remains unsolved. in 1997, according to a report by the New York Post citing a retired FBI agent who investigated the case. Former rap music mogul Suge Knight, the founder of Death Row Records who is serving a 28-year prison sentence for intentionally running over and killing a man in 2015, hired an assassin to carry out the slaying of rapper Notorious B.I.G.
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