This account of what they and others did that night is based on police affidavits and court documents as well. €œThis is wholesale, made-up-out-of-whole-cloth perjury,†Sanders said.īoth Mack and Perez have long since left the Police Department. On the 20th anniversary of his death, the mother of Biggie Smalls, aka Notorious B.I.G., says she knows who killed her son. and Anderson denied any role in Shakur’s death. Sanders Jr., the Wallace family’s lawyer, denied the allegation. In his deposition, Anderson accused the family and their lawyer of offering to cut him in for a portion of any award for falsely implicating the police. It accuses the Police Department, and specifically Mack, of responsibility for Wallace’s death. His family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking damages from the city. Wallace was one of the country’s most influential hip-hop artists, and theories have proliferated for years about who might have been behind his murder and why. Its been almost two decades since the murder of Tupac Shakur and the subsequent killing of The Notorious B.I.G. “It was a lie, and I’m ashamed of it.â€ī.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was 24 when he was gunned down while leaving a music industry party at a Los Angeles museum. She believes the LAPD is withholding the suspect(s) responsible for Bigs death. €œI don’t know David Mack, I don’t know Rafael Perez,†Anderson said in the deposition. The young man would go on to rise to fame as Biggie, Notorious B.I.G., and Biggie Smalls in. 20 deposition that he lied as part of a scam to win a monetary settlement from the city.Īnderson’s deposition, first reported Wednesday in the Los Angeles Times, states that he was offered a portion of any settlement if he testified that former police Officer Rafael Perez told him that another ex-police officer, David Mack, was involved.īoth Mack and Perez have long denied any involvement in the March 9, 1997, murder of the New York rapper, also known as Biggie Smalls. On May 21, 1972, Christopher Wallace was born in Brooklyn, New York. Waymond Anderson, a former R&B artist now serving a life sentence for murder in a separate case, said in an Aug.
says he lied about the officer’s involvement, a move that provides another twist in a complex and unsolved killing. LOS ANGELES - A prison inmate who implicated a former Los Angeles Police Department officer in the murder of Notorious B.I.G.