No one has been arrested or charged in the shooting, which some investigators believe was motivated by a bitter bicoastal feud between Death Row and a rival rap record label based in New York City.
Eight months ago, LAPD homicide detectives served search warrants on several locations linked to Death Row and the man in charge of its security.
Mack, who is serving a year prison sentence for a Nov. But according to sources and LAPD investigative documents, detectives have been trying to build a case against the former police officer for nearly two years.
The two officers, in fact, partied in Las Vegas two days after the bank robbery, spending thousands of dollars. Investigators on the LAPD corruption task force are continuing to look for a criminal link between the two former partners. Wallace, a pound rapper who also was known to fans as Biggie Smalls, was gunned down as his motorcade was leaving a music industry party at the museum at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.
Eyewitnesses described the lone gunman as an African American wearing a suit and bow tie, similar, police say, to the attire favored by Nation of Islam members.
The assailant was driving a dark-colored Chevrolet Impala, witnesses said. The precision with which the attack was executed makes investigators suspect that it was a professional assassination. Over the past two years, the investigation has been headed by several teams of detectives.
Recently, the pair who conducted the searches of Death Row have retired. The two new detectives assigned to the investigation declined comment for this story.
But sources close to the case say that neither the rap feud angle nor the gang dispute theory has been ruled out. The sources refused to say which theory, if any, was being given more credence and pursued more vigorously. Over the years, the sources said, different detectives have not always agreed on which investigative path to follow or on which of the open leads might be most productive.
One high-ranking police official familiar with the case said crimes committed within the rap music industry often are difficult to solve because witnesses are hostile toward authorities and fear retribution if they do cooperate. He currently is serving a nine-year prison sentence in connection with an unrelated attack on two aspiring rappers in a Hollywood recording studio. As for Mack, investigators are intrigued by several pieces of circumstantial evidence that they believe may tie him to the crime.
Biggie and the rest of the East Coast entourage went to Los Angeles that week already harboring concerns about a potential Tupac revenge hit. Muhammad, a friend of corrupt LA cop David Mack, fired the shots, Carson claimed, citing eyewitness testimony and financial evidence connecting him to the murder.
Muhammad was briefly a suspect but never charged. Now 61, he is believed to be a real-estate broker in Georgia and goes by his given name, Harry Billups. When you read those [sealed] documents there is overwhelming evidence that paints for you exactly who did the murder and why [the LAPD] covered it up. Their names are on the legal filings the Wallace family made in their civil suit against this city, said Sikorski, and he believes if this evidence sees the light of day the family would win hundreds of millions of dollars.
Suge had an accountant that was part of Death Row Records who helped do the financial side of things to pay for the murders. No charges were filed in that murder. Jones was shot dead himself in , also in Atlanta. The movie was first shown at a film festival in Italy in , but its wider released was delayed by controversy, including a lawsuit alleging that that Depp assaulted location manager Gregg Brooks.
Mack and Muhammad, then still known as Billups, attended the University of Oregon together in the early s. Mack was a track star and Billups played football. The money was never recovered. Mack was released from prison in G's SUV at a red traffic light at His second album, Life After Death, was released two weeks later and reached number one on the Billboard - and eventually achieved a Diamond certification in the US.
Dorsey argues another problem in holding Robinson as a credible witness in the Biggie case was that he actually knew little about the rap icon's murder outside the Petersen Museum in LA. Robinson claimed "I heard he was shot by a machine gun" by an assassin on foot and then says the killer "ran away around the corner" hopping into a limo or truck.
He said: "Wow, a man was accused of murder over this? A man's life was nearly ruined over that? This has to be one of the shakiest witness IDs in the history of law enforcement. Dorsey feels that Robinson was trying to get favors for giving detectives information - given the raft of other inmates all volunteered information about the Biggie murder to LAPD. Dorsey added: "Michael Robinson never knew a killer named Amir.
He was just repeating another random name that was floating around out there and that's why he couldn't remember the name at the top of the interview.
There were plenty of others who helped orchestrate it [and] allowed him to pull the trigger. And the publication reported it had obtained a FBI report which also outlined a potential case against Muhammad. However, Dorsey told The Sun Online the whole case against Muhammad is based on the faulty premise of Robinson's interview. That statement started the ball rolling," he said.
He added: "I know there are people who support Russell Poole who aren't going to like this, but I'm showing you the actual evidence that his theory is based on, so don't shoot the messenger. Here is the full explanation by Mike Dorsey of the Robinson interview 'flaws and consistencies" on his YouTube series.
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