The film will feature interviews with people whove never spoken about the case before and provide all the documentary evidence so the audience can rest assured it is true. Rose, who also played Shakur in the 2015 filmStraight Outta Comptonand was 4 whenShakurwas killed, said hethinks both rappers would've still been at the top of their game had they lived. "As soon as everybody came to a stop, bam, the doors all opened up, pretty much everybody got out, and I thought for sure itwas going to be a shooting," retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police sergeant Chris Carroll, who was on bicycle patrol at the time and was the first officer on the scene that night, recalled to E! Wallace's SUV stopped at a red light on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue[8] just 50yd (46m) away. The D.A. Is THCP As Safe As Delta-8? Knight, who has been incarcerated since January 2015 on murder and attempted murder charges for a separate incident, has also long been suspected and But notlong after the award show, Knight's friend Jake Robles was shot and killed in Atlanta, and a witness fingered Combs' bodyguard, Anthony "Wolf" Jones. SWAGGA MUSIC:Did your book Murder Rap change your life? Shakur was featured on Digital Underground's albumThis Is an EP Release, debuting his solo skills on "Same Song" and appearing in the video. That's the only thing that'll ever stop me is death. With opportunities drying up, Shakur was fast going into debt and needed an infusion of cash. So what Kenner had done was he brought Theresa Swann into the jail under the ruse of her being his legal aid. If you choose to Accept all, we will also use cookies and data to. DX: I read in the LA Weekly piece that Swanns interview wasnt recorded? Knight, who's never been charged with anything related to Wallace's or Shakur's death, is currently in prison. Harry Billups (suspected shooter by, This page was last edited on 1 April 2023, at 03:42. Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. Sanders says that Smalls was not supposed to attend the Vibe Magazine party at the Petersen Automotive Museum an after-party for the previous evening's Soul Train awards the night he was gunned down. October 3, 2011. ), Agnant, whopleaded down to a misdemeanor convictionand received probation, was later called out by Tupac on the 1996 diss track"Against All Odds." recanted and said, 'I made it all up. "So as his mother, my whole job and responsibility is to see to it that that happens for him, and I do that with love.". They beg for their life. "Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Why should anyone believe him, you ask? Pretty soon he was joiningthe group onstage, but he was a volatile presence. One lucky, FAMILY AFFAIR: INSIDE SNOOP DOGG AND HIS BOSS LADY, By continuing to use our site, you agree to our. Confidential sources from the Death Row entourage, the Mob Pirus, and [Suges girlfriend, identified in Kadings book by the alias Theresa Swann], said Poochie had We don't know who's chasing who, or why. The enduringfascination surroundingthe inextricably linked caseshas resulted in numerousexaminations of what happened, including 2018's USA limited seriesUnsolved: The Murders of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G., starringMarcc Rose as Shakur and Wavvy Jones as Biggie. Getty. "Hip-hop has changed so much over the years, I don't think they'd rock with most of the music that gets played on radio today," he told The Source. "My character [Greg Kading] started to go down that same path, and really truly wanted to bring justice to Christopher Wallace's mother. A fourth man who was supposedly there was never located.). Suge was publicly dissing Puffy and went so far as to abduct and beat one of Puffys associates in an attempt to find out where Puffy and his families L.A. home was. You don't leave it unsolved if you want to create a safe environment." Film 'City of Lies' Pulled From Release Schedule", "Mark Saylor dies at 58; former Times editor oversaw Pulitzer-winning series", "Man No Longer Under Scrutiny in Rapper's Death", "Informant in Rap Star's Slaying Admits Hearsay", "Hip-Hop Homicide "Worth More Dead Than Alive" Crime Library on", "LAPD launching new Notorious BIG task force", "Interview: Suge Knight paid Poochie $900 before killing B.I.G. One of the first people named, however, seemingly thanks to a theory espoused by Richard Poole, was David Macka cop who had been investigated in the LAPD Rampart corruption scandal and who had ties to Knightand associateAmir Muhammad, whom police also suspected at one point had pulled the trigger on Notorious B.I.G. Changed Hip-Hop Culture Forever and Became an Obsession-Worthy Mystery for the Ages. In school at the time working on a degree in criminal justice, Morris chose to not go to court with him, butshe believed in his innocence. Chased down and cornered by police afterward, he raps, "I'd rather die than be trapped in the living hell.". ", "Biggie kept saying: 'Is this where they dump the dead bodies?' Prosecutors charged thatthe cops had been crossing the street with their wives when two cars ferrying Shakur and his entourage almost hit them and a confrontation ensued. Theresa Swann refused. GREG KADING: Once the LAPD got out from under the threat of a multi-million dollar lawsuit, their motivation to solve the case diminished. Greg Kading: We believe its a guy named Poochie, who was a Blood affiliate of Suge Knights. "He was completely different from what people knew," she told the Sunday Telegraph. All the evidence proving Baby Lane as Tupacs shooter will be featured. GREG KADING: I was transferred off the case after a newspaper article came out alleging I had acted unethically in another high-profile murder case. It was his first trip to jail and, while he was adamant about having been mistreated by the cops,his reputation split into two right therehardworkingBlack artistcalling out the cops for violating his civil rights, five months after the beating of Rodney Kingvs.authority-flouting criminal who had no respect for law enforcement. Amir Muhammad was a name actually, there was never an Amir Muhammads name, there was just an Amir, which was part of a clue given by a jailhouse informant named Michael Robinson. Its where he starred for four years at Lynwood High School, 20 minutes from Compton, Californias much-loved Tams Burgers.Knight faces murder (among other) charges stemming from a January 2015 incident at Tams in which he is accused of barreling a Ford F-150 into two men. At the time,per theLos Angeles Times, there were four cases pending against Shakur in three states, including the then yet-to-be closed Atlanta shooting. We were kind of bifurcated away from the civil investigation. "'I didn't mean that about your dad or you. [21] The Metro section also ran a photo of Muhammad, identified by police as a mortgage broker unconnected to the murder who appeared to match details of the gunman, printing his name and driver's license. Sanders says the contradiction isa silver bullet in that theory, and that the book is internally inconsistent because [Kading] starts out by saying that it's a fluke that [Smalls] even went to the event. Poochie Fouse was shot and killed in July 2003 while riding his motorcycle in Compton, caught up in a feud between different Blood factions, according to police. identified in Kading's book as "Theresa Swann," agent actually in the interview with us. Even though the LAPD could disprove the David Mack theory, it was still going to be a difficult and expensive prosecution against Suge Knight. He came on early, he was claiming that Suge had tried to hire him to get some guns, and some other Suge associates were gonna go do the murder. I actually had nothing to do with what happened to Pac. You killed a Kennedy, Knight told Sirhan, according to Abreu. The Metro section of the Times reported that police suspected a connection between Wallace's death and the Rampart police corruption scandal, consistent with Sullivan and Poole's theory. Media reports had previously speculated that Wallace was in some way connected to Shakur's murder, though no evidence ever surfaced to seriously implicate him. He guest-starred on theCosby Show spin-offA Different World, then landed starring roles in the basketball dramaAbove the Rimand the crime dramas (all released posthumously)Bullet,Gridlock'dandGang Related. Meanwhile, Knight had visited Shakur several times in prison and ended up posting the $1.4 million bail thatgot the rapper releasedearly while he appealed his case. SWAGGA MUSIC: You tell in your book Wardell Poochie Fouse shot Notorious B.I.G. However, Kading doesn't think Knight would have necessarily been wise to Smalls' itinerary. 2023 E! Of course, now we know that to be the case. Biggie even stayed with Tupac on trips to L.A. Wardell Fouse a.k.a Darnell Bolton a.k.a. Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. (Shakur associated with gang members, but he himself was not one, Kading reiterated. "Big Frank," as the rapper called him, didn't like the idea of being without a weapon while protecting Shakur, who attracted a crowd wherever he went. Shakur had been nominated for an NAACP Image Award forPoetic Justiceand National Political Congress of Black Women leader and anti-gangsta rap crusader C. DeLores Tucker picketedthe show for not rescinding his nomination. SWAGGA MUSIC: How important was the involvement of Crips and Bloods gangs members in the case? "They stood up and hugged when it was over and they got along fine from them on," Kidada wrote. [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. His close friend is Reggie Wright Jr. for Christs sake ! Suge was enraged over the attempt on his life and the death of Pac, so he hired a Compton gang member, who had done shootings for him in the past, to kill Big in retaliation. AsArsenio Hallcommented when Shakurappeared on his showin 1993, it seemed as though there were "two Tupacs.". 1 on the Billboard 200. He only gives that description after hes gone and talked to Eugene Deal. A new book from a former LAPD investigator on the case has very interesting story to tell. "But God is great. News in 2018. He was busy touring with Tha Dogg Pound, shootingGridlock'd, making a video a week and working on his fifth studio album,The Don Killuminati: The Seven Day Theory,whichyears ahead of artists ranging from Beyoncto Nicki Minajto Garth Brooksheattributed to an alter ego, Makaveli. He also methis future wife,Keisha Morris, in New York while awaiting trial. More recently, the film City of Lies was produced based on Poole's investigation and Sullivan's book, and cast Johnny Depp as Poole. The album came out Nov. 5, 1996, two months after Shakur was killed. If the judge allowed all the things leading up to Bigs murder in, then a jury might see the big picture and convict him. Do you think something like the Notorious B.I.G. A police report quoted in the book says that "Theresa Swann" (an alias), one of Suge Knight's baby mothers, confessed to taking money from him in order to set up the hit: So there were some problems in the development. (The union was annulled in 1996.). Theres no way to go, Well, who was the deputy on charge that day? 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The shooter, Poochie, is dead, Theresa Swann has prosecutorial immunity as a result of her cooperation, which just leaves Suge Knight. ", Like the LAPD, the Vegas police were accused of not thoroughly investigating Shakur's murder for whatever reasona theory Greg Kading finds illogical. 
Steven Katz, the lead detective in the Wallace investigation. In April 1993 hespent 10 days in jailinEast Lansing, Mich.,after swinging at another rapper with a bat during a concert at Michigan State, nearly causing a riot in the audience. We know that he's a nice guy from New York. Shakur maintained his innocence, but these charges seemed to finally punctured the Teflon thathad so farsurrounded (and boosted) his career throughout his previous run-ins with the law. They had a very secretive and exclusive relationship.
He was fast becoming the voice of aBlack community that was tired of coming out on the losing side. GREG KADING: This is the only explanation that is supported by evidence and reliable testimony. Shakur told a judge that he thought the driver may have been reaching for a gun. And uh, arrest somebody already! 3/7/2023 12:40 AM PT. Shakur ended up getting shot five times. I tried to get her to meet with Voletta Wallace and offer her apologies. (Tucker, who died in 2005, unsuccessfully sued his estate in 1997 after being name-checked on All Eyez on Me.). Jackson, however, maintains that she wassexually assaultedby multiple men that night, including Shakur. Of course now Suge knows it was Puffy, not Biggie, who was responsible for Pacs murder and has even said so in recent interviews. Shakur was fired fromMenace II Societyafter becoming hard todeal withon set and he ended upinvolved in an attack onco-directorAllen Hughesat a music video shoot.
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