In fact, nobody has ever been arrested in connection with the killings. Six months later Wallace, 24, was sprayed with bullets while sitting in an SUV outside a Los Angeles music industry party. 7, 1996, in Las Vegas, where Shakur, 25, was gunned down, gangland-style, at a traffic light as he sat in the passenger seat of Knight's car. That was the backdrop for the events of Sept. Months later, a Death Row bodyguard was killed outside an Atlanta nightclub Knight blamed Puffy and his entourage, who were present. The next year at the influential Source magazine rap awards, Knight insulted Combs from the stage. He recovered, but blamed Wallace for setting up the hit. In 1994 Shakur was shot five times in the lobby of a New York recording studio. The feud quickly escalated from CD disses to real-life crime. Notorious B.I.G., whose legal name was Christopher Wallace), and West Coast riders at Marion "Suge" Knight's Death Row records, home to Shakur. It was fought between the New York-based camp of Sean "Puffy" Combs and his Bad Boy label, home to Brooklyn's Biggie Smalls (a.k.a. What we know for sure is that during the mid-'90s a deadly East Coast vs. Each uses similar facts to come to completely different conclusions. It comes on the heels of a recent Los Angeles Times exposé. Opening this week in several major cities is "Biggie and Tupac," a documentary film by director Nick Broomfield. Now, two new high-profile entries try to unravel the entertainment industry's unprecedented whodunits. (One online favorite: Shakur faked his death to escape the pressures of fame.) Both murder cases remain unsolved, which means conspiracy theories among hip-hop fans are helping fill the void. were gunned down in a hail of bullets during two separate, operatic shootings that rocked the rap world in late 1996 and early 1997. It's been six years since rap heroes Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Nobody has yet suggested that a second shooter was perched on the grassy knoll, but that might be just a matter of time.
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