New LAPD task force to investigate B.I.G.'s murder

Los Angeles Police Department is assembling a task force of six homicide detectives to continue investigating the murder mystery, said LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman.

While no new evidence has been presented for the task force, the rapper's mother Voletta Wallace and other relatives claim rogue police officers were involved in B.I.G.'s murder and are seeking a wrongful death lawsuit.

Nine years after the Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down while leaving a party, a police detective was found to have hid statements linking the murder to two former officers, resulting in the suit's mistrial. The city was ordered to pay $1.1 million in legal fees and other expenses to the Wallace family, with a new trial set for early 2007.

Several possible suspects have been suggested, including members of the notorious Southside Crips gang and the Bloods gang who may have killed B.I.G. as part of a hip-hop feud.

B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, was killed March 9, 1997 while leaving a museum party in Los Angeles. He was 24.