who was assigned to the case, Captain Steve Roller of the Compton P.D. He originally denied that any of these gang deaths had to do with Tupac's murder, but his opinion clearly had changed when he admitted that as many as a dozen shootings, three of which were fatal, could be linked to Tupac's murder.Tensions kept mounting in the days and months after Tupac's murder, but everybody had felt that it had came to a close until in 1997 at the Soul Train Award show in California. At the show Biggie was asked to present an award and after doing so he was hit with a barrage of boos and people throwin' up Westide from the balcony, which is a person's fingers curled to resemble a W. "What's up Cali?" Biggie yelled in response to the boos, he then handed the award to Toni Braxton and left the stage. After this scene Biggie was understandably shaken up because he could not comprehend why he was so hated. A week later he was heard talking about the incident that started the whole feud, Tupac's supposed relationship with Biggie's former wife, Faith Evans. Saying "so am I gonna hate her for the rest of her life thinking she did something? Or am I gonna be a man about the situation? If she did, she can't do it no more, so let's just get on with our lives" (Ro 357). On March 9, 1997, at approximately 1:00 A.M. Biggie was leaving a Vibe Magazine party in which the release of his new song "Going back to Cali" was ironically being promoted. After stepping into a GMC Suburban with a couple of bodyguards and an entourage of rappers following closely behind in a succession of SUV's, Biggie made his way home only to be stuck at a red light. It was at this moment that a green car driving extremely erratically; pulled along side Biggie. Out jumped three to four guys spraying six to seven bullets in the now unconscious rap icon. Puffy who was in the truck directly behind Biggie ran to him immediately to find him slumped over the steering wheel and...
