Ethan Shackelford Mrs. Schlatt Academic English IV 16 November 2024 Gangsta Rap Shooting The slaying of one of the most influential rappers in history, Biggie Smalls, will go down in history as a crazy murder mystery. The mystery is still ongoing and there have been many conspiracy theories and different suspects in the case. The case is so massive that people have thought that the LAPD had even tried to cover up the evidence. There have been multiple pieces of evidence and many people who think that Amir Muhammad was the murderer and there were many more people helping set this shooting up. Background on Victim and Murder Christopher Wallace a.k.a Biggie Smalls grew up in a rough section of Brooklyn, New York and had many bad experiences with the law. He is not a good man if …show more content…
There were plenty of others who helped orchestrate it” (Lee). People think that Amir Muhammad was hired by someone who had Biggie set up for the murder. Investigators think that, “ex-Officer David A. Mack conspired with Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight to arrange the contract killing” (Latt and Glover). This would also tie into Tupac’s record studio because Suge Knight is the founder of Death Row Records, which was what Tupac was a part of. Another primary suspect is Duane Keffe Davis, who was one of the first four main suspects in the case. Davis is described as being “the group’s ringleader by authorities at a news conference and in court” (Investigation). All of the suspects in the case make sense and this is exactly how I think the murder was set up. The investigation that the detectives have built is great and it helps to decide who was behind the murder. Detectives have made multiple cases where various people seem guilty. The inside people in all of these investigations are David Mack and Raphael Perez, who are the corrupt LAPD cops. Detectives have now found out that “Mack and Perez had close ties to Death Row”