The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office released the
autopsy report on Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie
Smalls, on Friday, more than 15 years after the rapper was shot to death.
The 23-page report offers
fresh details about his death, which remains one of the city's best-known
unsolved homicides.
Wallace, 24, was shot and
killed early on March 9, 1997, as he was leaving a music industry party. He was
riding in the front passenger seat of a Chevrolet Suburban when another vehicle
pulled up beside his and someone opened fire.
Wallace was shot four
times, according to the autopsy report.
The fatal bullet entered
his right hip and ripped through several organs, including his liver, heart and
lung. The other bullets struck Wallace in his left forearm, his back and his
left thigh.
He was taken to
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he arrived in full cardiac arrest and was
pronounced dead shortly after 1 a.m.
At the time of his death,
he had no drugs or alcohol in his system. Wallace was 6 feet, 2 inches tall,
weighed 395 pounds and had a tattoo on his right forearm that read: "The
Lord is My Light and my Salvation ..."
His slaying has long
stumped investigators.
Los Angeles police and
the FBI both looked into the case but made no arrests.
Wallace was killed just
six months after his former friend and rap rival Tupac Shakur was gunned down
in Las Vegas, leading some to believe both shootings were tied to a so-called
rap war between East Coast and West Coast hip-hop artists and their record
companies.
Shakur recorded for
Marion "Suge" Knight's Los Angeles-based Death Row Records, while
Wallace was signed with New York-based Bad Boy Entertainment.
Shakur's killing is also
unsolved.
Source: CNN
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