Yesterday was the anniversary of rapper Biggie Smalls aka ‘The Notorious BIG’ death. It has been 15 years since Biggie’s death and despite all the rumors and conspiracies of who was behind Biggie’s murder, the LAPD officer [Greg Kading] who was investigating Biggie ‘s death has revealed to Complex Magazine that Wardell Fouse aka Darnell Bolton was the hitman that killed Biggie in the the fatal night of the rapper’s death on March 9th, 1997.
Commplex mag reports:
According to the police detective [Kading] who spent three years investigating the murder of Biggie Smalls, the man pictured above—Wardell Fouse a.k.a Darnell Bolton a.k.a. “Poochie”—was the triggerman who killed Biggie fifteen years ago today. His fee for murdering the greatest rapper of all time? $13,000.
On March 9, 1997, Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death while sitting in a Chevy Suburban outside of a hip-hop industry party in Los Angeles. Biggie’s drive-by shooting occurred just six months after his friend turned foe, 25-year-old Tupac Shakur, suffered a similar fate after a boxing match in Las Vegas. These killings remain the worst tragedies in hip-hop history.
Kading goes on to and tells Complex that case has already been considered solved internally within the L.A. police department but not externally with the public because of the following reason:
It comes down to how you define solved. Both law enforcement agencies—the Las Vegas Police Department and the L.A.P.D.—have drawn the conclusions that Tupac was killed by Orlando Anderson and Biggie Smalls was killed by Wardell ‘Poochie’ Fouse.
Those are the facts within law enforcement. They’re considered solved internally, but the public’s definition of solved is different. They haven’t gone through the judicial process and nobody has been prosecuted.
Both shooters are dead. Orlando Anderson was killed outside a Compton record shop in May 1998. Poochie died in July 2003 as a result of multiple gunshot wounds. He was shot in the back while riding his motorcycle in Compton. He was supposedly killed as a result of in-fighting between the Mob Pirus—Suge’s Blood associates—and another Blood gang known as the Fruit Town Pirus.
Both shooters are dead…That’s all the justice that these cases will see
The co-conspirators are absolutely known and I say that with conviction. I worked directly on these cases for years and know exactly where they stand within law enforcement. They would be very problematic prosecutions because of all of the convoluted peripheral issues that were raised during the investigation.
Kading also reveals that there was substantial evidence and confession statements [one made by Suge Knight then girlfriend who testified against him and later received immunity from the case] which proves that Suge Knight had hired Poochie to kill the Biggie’s
[Suge’s girlfriend] and Poochie agreed to terms. He received two payments, one for $9000 and one for $4000. Poochie lay in wait outside the Petersen Automotive Museum. As soon as he became aware of where Biggie was sitting in his car, he drove up and he shot him.
The D.A. in Los Angeles knows that this is an extremely difficult situation to try and prosecute. Here’s the problem; You’ve got [Suge’s girlfriend] confessing, and then, there was a bad move by law enforcement to give her immunity. The shooter’s dead, the female confessor has immunity, so you just have Suge Knight – says Kading.
Wow, after 15 years of speculation the alleged ‘truth’ of the Biggie’s murder is finally revealed. Greg Kading [the police detective] provides more in depth analysis of the complexity of the case, his decision to resign from the LAPD and to finally getting justice for two of the biggest and influential hip-hop artists [Biggie and Tupac] in his new book Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations.
May you continue to rest in peace BIGGIE.