He stared us in the face while leaning against a hearse that bore the license plate “B.I.G.” There were no sunglasses to hide his lazy eye. The album’s cover art featured the man formerly known as Biggie Smalls in a long black coat and black bowler. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the space of a week. It sold 700,000 hard copies almost immediately, jumping from No.
rose again: The double album Life After Death was released March 25. He was rushed to nearby Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m.
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The driver rolled down his window, drew his weapon and fired. A dark Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up along the passenger side. The SUV in which he was traveling stopped at a red light just 50 yards from the venue. It remains unsolved.Īt 12:30 a.m., Wallace left a Vibe magazine Soul Train Music Awards after-party at Los Angeles’ Petersen Automotive Museum. On March 9, 1997, Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious B.I.G., was gunned down in a drive-by shooting.
Another bullet was discovered at the hospital when the body was turned over after doctors had pronounced him dead.ĭuring the autopsy, the coroner listed Wallace as “morbidly obese.” A toxicology test revealed Wallace had no traces of drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of his death.Twenty years have passed, but the shock is still fresh - and still incomprehensible. Two of the bullets were found on the gurney that transported Wallace to the hospital. He was pronounced dead at 1:15 AM.Īccording to the report, all 4 of the gunshots traveled through the Suburban passenger door before striking Wallace. The fatal bullet was Gunshot #4 … 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.Īccording to the report, the bullet perforated Wallace’s colon, liver, heart and the upper lobe of his left lung.Īfter the shooting, Biggie was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Hospital where doctors performed an emergency thoracotomy, but as we all know, it was too late. after Gunshot #3 exited the thigh, “the projectile strikes the left side of the scrotum, causing a very shallow, 3/8 inch linear laceration.” Gunshot #3 struck Wallace on his outer left thigh and exited through his inner left thigh. Gunshot #2 struck Wallace in the back, missed all vital organs, and exited through his left shoulder. Gunshot #1 struck Wallace in the left forearm and traveled down to his wrist. was listed at 6’1″, 395 lbs - was struck a total of 4 times in a drive-by shooting on Wilshire Blvd while the 24-year-old rapper sat in the passenger seat of a Chevy Suburban.Īccording to the report, 3 of the shots were NOT fatal. And, although he had just left a party, there were no traces of drugs or alcohol in his system. But today, TMZ obtained his never-before-seen autopsy report, revealing new, graphic details of the night of his murder.Īccording to the report, Biggie sustained four gunshot wounds to his chest, shoulder, leg, forearm and scrotum on that fatal night in L.A., though three of the four shots were not considered fatal. was shot and killed while at a red light in his Chevy Suburban in Los Angeles. It’s been 15 years since the iconic Notorious B.I.G.
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