Single bullet killed Brooklyn rapper Notorious B.I.G., autopsy shows
Brooklyn rapper Notorious B.I.G. was killed by a single bullet that pierced several vital organs in a 1997 drive-by shooting, a long-sealed autopsy report released Friday shows.
The rapper, who grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant and went to George Westinghouse High School in Downtown Brooklyn, was hit four times in the shooting, which 15 years later remains one of Los Angeles’ highest-profile unsolved murders.
The report had been sealed at the request of detectives until last week, Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey said. The 23-page report details the trajectory of each of the shots that hit the rapper, whose name was Christopher Wallace. Investigators determined that a single shot that hit his left lung, heart and colon led to the 24-year-old’s death.