Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.

Murder of The Notorious B.I.G.
Petersen Automotive Museum in 2006
Location	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Coordinates	34°03′46.0″N 118°21′41.2″W / 34.062778°N 118.361444°W / 34.062778; -118.361444
Date	March 9, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-03-09) 12:47 a.m. PST (UTC−08:00)
Target	Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. "The Notorious B.I.G." or Sean Combs, a.k.a. "Puff Daddy"
Attack type	Murder by drive-by shooting
Weapon	9mm pistol (exact model and brand unknown)
Deaths	1 (Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. "The Notorious B.I.G.")
Perpetrators	Unconfirmed
Accused	Wardell Fouse (posthumously accused)

The American rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as the Notorious B.I.G., was murdered in a drive-by shooting in the early hours of March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. He was 24 years old. Prior to the event, Wallace promoted his second studio album Life After Death, and attended an after-party in Los Angeles instead of traveling to London.

In 2007, Wallace's mother, Voletta Wallace; his widow, Faith Evans; and his children, T'yanna Jackson and Christopher Jordan "CJ" Wallace, filed a $400 million second wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) alleging that corrupt officers were responsible for Wallace's death.^[1] Retired LAPD officer Greg Kading alleged that Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, orchestrated the murder in revenge for the September 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur in a similar drive-by shooting. Bloods member Wardell Fouse was named as the alleged shooter.^[2]