LOS ANGELES, March 27 -- Los Angeles police have released a composite drawing of the man wanted for the March 9 fatal shooting of rapper Christopher Wallace, also known as Notorious B.I.G. The 24-year-old Wallace was slain as he drove away from a party in Los Angeles. Police say (Thursday) the sketch was drawn with the help of two witnesses who were in one of the three cars in Wallace's motorcade.
The two witnesses from New York were not identified. The suspect was described as a clean-shaven African-American man in his early 20s with a very trim mustache and an apparently receding hairline. Officer Eduardo Funes said police were unsure whether the man's hairline actually was receding, or whether it was just styled to look that way. Police also announced that they have obtained a homemade videotape as part of the evidence in the case, but they would not discuss its contents. Funes said a witness saw a re-enactment of Wallace's shooting on the television show 'America's Most Wanted' and called the show to offer investigators the tape. Los Angeles police went to Houston to get the video. In its March 24 issue, Time magazine said the Los Angeles Police Department was focusing its investigation on a group of Crips gang members that Bad Boy Entertainment, Wallace's record label, had hired as bodyguards. ---
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