Notorious B.I.G. Autopsy Report Revealed

07 Dec, 2012

New information about Rapper Notorious B.I.G. who’s real name is Christopher Wallace has been released from a never-before-seen autopsy report according to TMZ reports on Friday, Dec. 7.

Wallace, who was shot and killed in 1997 in Los Angeles sustained gunshot wounds to his chest, shoulder, leg, forearm and scrotum.

Christopher Wallace was listed at 6’1″, 395 lbs according to the reports and was struck a total of 4 times in a drive-by shooting on Wilshire Blvd while sitting in the passenger seat of a Chevy Suburban.

The autopsy report has revealed that three of the four shots were not fatal.

The first gunshot listed struck Wallace in the left forearm and traveled down to his wrist.

The second struck him in the back, missing all of the singer’s vital organs, before exiting through his left shoulder. The third bullet struck him on the outer left thigh and exited through his inner left thigh.

The reports says after Gunshot #3 exited the thigh, “the projectile strikes the left side of the scrotum, causing a very shallow, 3/8 inch linear laceration.”

The fourth and final fatal bullet was reported to have entered Wallace’s body through his right hip and ripped its way through several vital organs, before coming to rest in his left shoulder area.

The autopsy report states that the bullet perforated Wallace’s colon, liver, heart and the upper lobe of his left lung.

News reports from the shooting reveal that Christopher Wallace,a.k.a. Notorious B.I.G. was rushed immediately to Cedars-Sinai Hospital. The doctors performed an emergency thoracotomy, but Wallace was already gone. The doctors pronounced the rapper dead at 1:15 a.m.

The official police report states that all 4 of the bullets traveled through the Suburban passenger door before striking Wallace. Two of the bullets were found on the gurney that transported Wallace to the hospital. Another bullet was discovered at the hospital when the body was turned over after doctors had pronounced him dead.

The coroner’s reports listed B.I.G. as “morbidly obese,” the coroner listed Wallace,24, as “morbidly obese.” The toxicology reports revealed Wallace had no traces of drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of his death.

Wallace’s body was later identified by his mother and wife.

Christopher Wallace’s murder remains unsolved and there are many theories regarding the identities and motives of the murderers. Immediately after the shooting, reports surfaced linking the Tupac Shakur and Wallace murders, because of the similarities in the drive-by shootings.

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