Last Man Standing looks into Poole's allegation that Wallace's murder was commissioned by Knight with the help of corrupt LAPD officers who were moonlighting at Death Row. Image: Last Man Standing filmmaker Nick Broomfield pictured with Suge Knight during an interview for Biggie & Tupac, his first documentary on the murders. The allegations against former LAPD officers The other one was very orchestrated - and that's the one that involved the LAPD." I think the car that Tupac was in had 15 bullets going into it, so it was just a normal gangbanger kind of shooting.
"The hit on Biggie was done by a professional, incredibly well co-ordinated. "I think there's no doubt," says Broomfield.īut Wallace's shooting was different, he says. Now, many believe it was Anderson who was the gunman who shot Shakur.
With the two central stars in the highly publicised East Coast-West Coast rap feud both dead, reports following Wallace's murder immediately started linking it to that of Shakur. The New York rapper had travelled to California to promote his upcoming second album, Life After Death, and to present at the Soul Train Music Awards. Six months after Shakur's murder, in the early hours of 9 March 1997, Wallace was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, at the age of 24. Keefe D has never been charged with any offence in connection to the star's death. Anderson, who had always been the prime suspect but was never charged, had died 20 years earlier, in another gang-related shooting in 1998. In 2018, after revealing he had terminal cancer, former Southside Crips gang member and Anderson's uncle, Duane Keith Davis, known as Keefe D, implied Anderson had pulled the trigger and said he was also in the car. Earlier in the night he had watched a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand with Knight and was involved in a fight involving Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, a member of the Southside Crips, in the lobby afterwards Knight was affiliated with the rival Bloods gang. Tupac Shakur was fatally wounded in a shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 7 September 1996, dying of his injuries six days later, aged 25. He was killed after attending the same awards a year later. Image: The Notorious BIG at the Soul Train Music Awards in LA in 1996. What happened on the nights of the two murders?
I was motivated by feeling pissed off about what had happened in the intervening years, that it still was not solved and that people were accepting a theory that was completely incorrect, that exonerated the LAPD." "I felt angry at the way Russell Poole was treated and angry that people believed the Kading theory. The Poochie theory was based "on the flimsiest of evidence, and it was obviously to dispel the Biggie Smalls lawsuit", Broomfield alleges. By this point, Kading's suspect could not be charged Poochie was dead, gunned down while riding a motorbike in 2003. In 2006, amid a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Wallace's family, which was eventually dismissed, the LAPD reopened the Biggie case, with retired detective Greg Kading concluding that Knight had commissioned a gang member called Wardell "Poochie" Fouse to carry out the shooting. Suge Knight went to prison and a lot of people were prepared to come forward and say things that they were never going to say before." "Over the 20 years, there were certain developments. "I kept in touch with Russell Poole a bit," he tells Sky News. Pic: Dogwoofīroomfield says he wanted to return to the story because he always believed Poole was right - and with Knight in prison, he felt more confident of finding evidence to try to prove it. Image: Russell Poole was an LAPD detective who believed fellow officers were involved in Wallace's murder.
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