15 years ago The Notorious B.I.G or Biggie Smalls was shot and killed in Los Angeles. Christopher Wallace's death, which is his real name, was surrounded by a lot of mysetery with the assailant who shot him never being found, though there is a lot of conspiracy around it.
TMZ recently obtained Wallace's autopsy report which has never before been seen or published before. According to the report the 395 pound rapper was shot four times when he was riding in the passenger seat of a Chevy Suburban on March 9, 1997 on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard. The report states that he was hit in four different places and three of the gunshot wounds were not fatal.
The first gunshot hit Biggie in the left forearm and traveled down his wrist while the second hit him in the back and left through his left shoulder. It missed all vital organs. The third one went through his outer left thigh and left throughout his inner left thigh while also hitting the left side of his scrotum. The fatal gunshot was the one that went through is right hip and went through several organs before it landed in his left shoulder.
"According to the report, the bullet perforated Wallace's colon, liver, heart and the upper lobe of his left lung," reported TMZ.
Biggie was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Here doctor's attempted to perform an emergency thoracotomy.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the LAPD released the report unexpectedly. It had been kept private at request of investigators but the Los Angeles County Coroners office released the 23-page document.
The LA Times reports that it has caught Biggie's family off guard, "What legitimate lead could be stimulated by releasing an autopsy that says Mr. Wallace was shot. When everyone knows that. Why don't they release some of the clues they have?"said Perry Sanders Jr., a civil rights attorney who represents Wallace's family members said to The LA Times.
The report shows that Wallace was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. at only 24-years-old. His death was a shock to the world and the hip hop community. One of his most popular albums was 1994's "Ready to Die," and it has left a lasting impression on hip hop culture. Biggie was shot and killed only six months after rapper Tupak Shakur.
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