Biggie Smalls is killed in a drive-by shooting in 1997 - New York Daily News
(Originally published by the Daily News on March 10, 1997). The rap world reeled with grief and fear of escalating violence yesterday after Brooklyn gangsta rap superstar Biggie Smalls was shot dead in Los Angeles, six months after his archrival... "This is the first time I ever felt unsafe," said pioneer rapper Ice-T, who got a call 20 minutes after the killing from friends fearing he would be the victim of retaliation. Biggie who was born Christopher Wallace in Bedford-Stuyvesant 24 years ago and who recorded as the Notorious B. I. G. was sitting in his parked GMC Suburban outside a party at 12:35 a. m. yesterday when a dark green car rolled by. Someone fired at... BIGGIE'S BODY IS CARRIED THROUGH HIS BROOKLYN HOME, PASSING THOUSANDS OF FANS IN 1997. Several other people were in Biggie's car, but he was the only one hit. Police would not confirm or deny a report thatan anonymous caller told Biggie he was "dead" if he attended the Vibe magazine party at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Blvd. Hundreds of people, including singer Faith Evans, Biggie's estranged wife and the mother of his newborn son, were standing around when the bullets began flying. Security guard Robert Payne said, "All of the sudden, I heard about five or six shots pow, pow, pow, pow, pow. Source: www.nydailynews.com
