The coroner also wrote that Wallace was “morbidly obese”. All of the gunshots went through the car door before hitting Wallace. The first gunshot hit Biggie in the left forearm, whilst the second struck him in the back and missed all vital organs and the third entered and exited through his left thigh.
The hip hop artist was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California. He was struck in the chest, shoulder, leg, forearm and scrotum. The murder of Christopher Wallace, an American rapper better known by his stage names 'the Notorious B.I.G.' and 'Biggie Smalls', occurred in the early hours of Sunday, March 9, 1997. And now that more media about his life has been released, his estate controlled by his mother Voletta, his widow Faith Evans, and his former manager Wayne Barrow has grown to 160 million. It says that the fatal bullet was gunshot number four, “which entered Wallace’s body through his right hip and ripped its way through several vital organs … before coming to rest in his left shoulder area.” The bullet went through his colon, liver, heart and left lung. TMZ obtained Wallace's never-before-seen autopsy report which confirms the Notorious rapper - standing 6-foot, 1-inch tall and weighing 395 pounds - was shot four times while riding in the passenger's seat of a Chevy Suburban on Wilshire Boulevard on March 9, 1997. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Biggie's net worth at the time of his death (adjusted for inflation) was 10 million. We hope that witnesses or other people with information will come forward and give us the clues we need to solve this case.”Īccording to the report, obtained by TMZ, the first three of four shots were not fatal. Over twenty years after his death, lets take a look back at the life of hip-hop legend Notorious B.I.G, from his biggest songs to his dating history and more.
Obviously this has been a challenging case for us to solve. Captain Billy Hayes, who heads up the Robbery-Homicide Division investigating the killing, said in the statement: “Our detectives personally spoke with the Wallace family on Friday night, and apologized for not notifying them prior to the release.