unsolved--but more questions have just been answered. The Los Angeles
County Department of Coroner has released the 23-page autopsy report
detailing how the platinum-selling rapper died when he was gunned down
outside the Peterson Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard at about
12:30 a.m.
on March 9, 1997. Biggie, whose real name was Christopher Wallace,
suffered nonfatal gunshot wounds to the left forearm, back and upper
left thigh, while the bullet that killed him tore through his right
hip and perforated his colon, liver, heart and left lung, according to
the report obtained by E! New.
He was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at 1:15 a.m.
after attempts at resuscitation failed. Investigators determined that
the bullets that pierced Wallace's body had first gone through the
door of the SUV in whose passender seat he was sitting. Where the
medical form asks, "How did injury occur?" it reads, "Shot by
assailant(s)." Deputy medical examiner Dr. Lisa Scheinin noted that
they were unable to determine the sequence in which the bullets hit
him.
The report notes Wallace's identifying marks, such as a tattoo of
Psalm 27 in its entirety on his right forearm and several old surgery
scars. The 24-year-old rapper, who didn't come by his nickname by
accident, was also described, at 395 pounds, as morbidly obese. His
toxocology screen came back negative for alcohol and drugs, including
cocaine, hallucinogens, morphine and methamphetamines.