member Lil' Cease, and driver Gregory "G-Money" Young. According to that April 14, 2010, Internal Affairs report, reviewed by L.A. Weekly, Kading was not to blame for wrongdoing that caused Judge Wilson to overturn Torres' conviction. DX: Okay. It wasnt out of a desire not to talk to him, but because I was an employee with the L.A.P.D., with the city of Los Angeles, conducting an ongoing criminal investigation, and he was a witness in a civil suit for the plaintiff against the city of Los Angeles. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. But when Kading visited Voletta Wallace in Pennsylvania a couple weeks ago to hand her a copy of his book, he says she thanked him, saying it would prove very beneficial.. Kading planned to notify her last weekend that Murder Rap was going to print. Of course Suge had been around long enough in his life to know there are informants out there and you never know who they are. After Philips and his editors mistakenly quoted from the faked documents, Philips was pushed out by the Times. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. Kading used the word procedure for policy when quoting someone in the affidavit and he changed an or to an and. LAPD also determined there was absolutely no evidence that Kading intentionally or maliciously misrepresented material facts, and, further, that Kading was attacked by high-priced attorneys and was left virtually unsupported by the Assistant U.S. Attorney.. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. And Russell Pooles theory of course leads to the inevitable lawsuit about the police being involved because Russell Poole finds out that a guy named Amir had visited David Mack at the Montebello City Jail after his bank robbery arrest. Two months later, Federal Judge Stephen Wilson issued a shocking ruling, throwing out the verdicts. Theresa Swann is on Facebook. Harry Billups) were originally named as defendants in the civil suit, but were dropped shortly before the trial began after the LAPD and FBI dismissed them as suspects. So saying that, we have no reason to believe that Perez or Mack were there. The fourth bullet was fatal, entering through his right hip and striking several vital organs, including his colon, liver, heart, and the upper lobe of his left lung, before stopping in his left shoulder area. [19], On January 19, 2007, Tyruss "Big Syke" Himes, a friend of Shakur who was implicated in Wallace's murder by the Los Angeles Fox affiliate KTTV and XXL magazine in 2005, had a defamation lawsuit regarding the accusations thrown out of court.[37]. In 1998 I found love in selling & promoting Real Estate by helping families sell or find their dream home! [in Biggie & Tupac] where [Nick Broomfield] gets up and Eugene Deal points at [a photo of Amir Muhammad in a lineup], theres a lot of problems with that legally, and the way that it was developed. [1] Retired LAPD Officer Greg Kading alleged that Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, orchestrated the murder in revenge for the September 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur in a similar drive-by homicide by gunshot.[2]. Former Times reporter Philips spent years struggling to redeem his reputation, and now is co-producing a documentary on Suge Knight that will feature a soundtrack by Knight's latest company, Black Kapital. The driver of the Impala, a black male, rolled down his window, drew a 9mm blue-steel pistol and fired at the SUV; four bullets hit Wallace. The Real Housewives of New Jersey OG Teresa Giudice made up an "iconic trio" when she joined forces with two Bravo newbies. Most of Judge Wilson's key attacks upon the prosecutors did not blame Kading, even if much of the media coverage (including this paper's) tended to paint Kading as a villain. Kading was branded a dishonest cop, as any Google search will confirm. [29] Kading alleges Shakur was killed under the orders of Combs.[30]. Well, what did you see?, well then they develop their own perspectives on what happened. The first thing he thought was, What the f*** are you going to be asking these questions for?, Suges defense was, I do not know what you are talking about.. DX: Speaking of that initial composite, even [for] the first composite Lil Cease describes someone in a suit and bow tie. [5] Wallace's entourage rushed him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where doctors performed an emergency thoracotomy, but he was pronounced dead at 1:15a.m. (PST) at the age of 24. Staying in a tent, Kading became increasingly desperate for stability. I had to prioritize and it's not like I had unlimited resources.. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. Her name is Tammie Hawkins. More recently, the film City of Lies was produced based on Poole's investigation and Sullivan's book, and cast Johnny Depp as Poole. Theresa Swann We found 31 records for Theresa Swann in PA, LA and 16 other states. Wrongful-Death Case Declared A Mistrial", "Lawsuit involving rapper death dismissed", Notorious: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_the_Notorious_B.I.G.&oldid=1141591318, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Amir Muhammed a.k.a. Deaths Were Nearly 'The End Of Rap', "Review: Rappers' deaths probed in 'LAbyrinth'", "Slain rapper's family keeps pushing suit", "Witness in B.I.G. [21] The Metro section also ran a photo of Muhammad, identified by police as a mortgage broker unconnected to the murder who appeared to match details of the gunman, printing his name and driver's license. What have you heard about this conspiracy to murder [Biggie]? We made a point of that. And then later on when the detectives come back, he incorporates Eugene Deals details into his own statement. I have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' Unsolved case Kading added: "Suge would have figured out she spoke, but the reality was that he was not going to kill or harm the mother of his child, especially if she is working with law enforcement. In Murder Rap, though, almost all of LAPD's informants are on the record. As a matter of fact, if you look at that official video the YouTube video, theres several versions of it but theres one that says official if you really dissect that, which we did, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that that is Poochie in his car in that dark-colored Impala. Theresa lived in Saint Albans, Vermont 05478, USA. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Former L.A.P.D. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. Sullivan, in response, quoted the lead attorney of the Wallace estate calling the newspaper "a co-conspirator in the cover-up. According to that Internal Affairs report, Kading's alleged misstatements on a search affidavit in the Numero Uno case were trivial and unrelated to Wilson overturning Torres' conviction. ", "Biggie Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". A barrel-chested black man with a front tooth missing, relaxed yet instinctively cautious, is seated across from four spellbound cops in a glass-walled conference room at 8200 Wilshire Blvd. And that something someone else coming forward to corroborate what we had didn't happen.. But now one of Pooles successors in investigating the Biggie case, Kading, is claiming that he disproved Pooles theory, and that rogue police officers were not in fact involved in the murder plot. Three years later, listening to the confessions fingering Sean Combs and Suge Knight, Kading felt he could almost see the finish line. [7] Wallace traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. Kading's job was to look into several murders possibly connected to Torres. In his December 2008 confession, however, the tape indicates Keffe D will only be held immune from his admissions if none of his statements, including on Shakur's murder, are shown to be false. Poole's theory quickly gained solid ground in high places, and motivated Voletta Wallace to sue LAPD in federal court. DX: Lastly in regards to the Biggie Smalls murder investigation, were you ever implicitly instructed by your superiors in the L.A.P.D. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. 's killer was paid just $14,000 to shoot the rap legend on this date 25 years ago, the detective on the case has claimed. But investigators are like softball parents: Their kid is always better than your kid. In another defense snippet, Kading talked to Derrick Smith about big money proof, Torres' lawyers alleged, that Kading was trying to bribe a star witness. Suspiciously, the first man to visit Mack in jail was named Amir the same first name a jailhouse informant gave Poole for Smalls' alleged killer. Until this month's release of Murder Rap, the only real opposition to Detective Russell Poole's conspiracy theories about corrupt cops was a series of Los Angeles Times articles written by Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter Chuck Philips. Much of the holes that youre gonna find in this is simply because there was nobody there to follow-up on the investigation once I got ripped out. [26], The criminal investigation into Wallace's murder was re-opened in July 2006 to look for new evidence to help the city defend the civil lawsuits brought by the Wallace family. The conversation was almost 12 years on from the murder and he would have suspected something with her all of a sudden bringing this stuff back up. Remember, theres a scene in there where theyve got these two guys in there that theyre interrogating, and they convince the one guy in one room that the other guy is ratting out on him, and then they start to that opens the door for them to then [be like], Oh, okay, well if hes ratting him out then Im gonna do it. Well, its kinda that same psychological technique that we use a lot in law enforcement. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. [31] The case remains officially unsolved, despite a good amount of evidence being found. Theres no way to go, Well, who was the deputy on charge that day? Keffe D gave the FBI a different story in 1997, denying his nephew was involved. Two minutes later, a dark-colored 19941996 Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's Suburban. Read the response from Voletta Wallace's attorney. Swann revealed how the rap boss, who was behind bars at the time, ordered Compton gangster Poochie to murder Biggie, during a taped interview - which later she secured an immunity deal on, according to Kading. In Greg Kading's book murder Rap he refers to her as Theresa Swann. And hes like, Oh, shoot! Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. He told me to tell Poochie to get over there and take care of it, you know what I mean?. Cal. DX: Now, I dont know if you can answer this question, but I do need to ask it: Is Theresa Swann actually former Death Row Records artist, and mother of Suge Knights nine-year-old daughter, Michelle? After speaking with a handful of gang members, Philips wrote a 2002 front-page article accusing Biggie Smalls of paying the Crips $1 million to knock off his West Coast competition. It once served as the bullet-riddled headquarters of the now-defunct Death Row Records, run by Bloods with a strict policy of never talking to cops. Respected Robbery-Homicide Detective Russell Poole, who inherited the Biggie Smalls case from the Wilshire Division a month after the rapper was shot, had developed a growing suspicion that a handful of rogue cops, taking orders from Suge Knight, were accomplices in Smalls' murder and that corrupt LAPD officials, under then-Chief Bernard Parks, had rushed to cover their bloody trail. I have no reason to believe they were there, but I dont have any I havent seen the evidence that was in the civil case [brought by Voletta Wallace] regarding the L.A.P.D. She was just a train wreck, Detective Kading tells the Weekly. As a matter of fact, we did the exact opposite. Christopher Wallace traveled to Los Angeles, California, in February 1997 to promote his upcoming second studio album, Life After Death, and to film a music video for its lead single, "Hypnotize". Theresa L Swann was born on May 15 1933. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . Estate of Wallace v. City of Los Angeles, 229 F.R.D. Suge is not an idiot, but a criminally sophisticated guy, "If you know someone is working with law enforcement and you go out and do something to them - who is their number one target now?". It now appears that Kading was unfairly blamed by Judge Wilson and the media. This seed of skepticism is resown in the pages of Murder Rap. Kading, who led a major Federal task force probe into Biggie's murder, has revealed how his forces investigations and Suges ex - codenamed "Theresa Swann" - detailed how Suge's paid enforcer Darnell Poochie Fouse pulled the trigger on March 9, 1997. Kading had properly handed his notebooks of interviews to the prosecution. Kading has no faith in the case ever being closed following Poochies death and the silence of Swann and Knight, who is serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter after running down two men on a film set. "[19] The Wallace suit had asked for $500 million from the city. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. The release was criticized by the long-time lawyer of his estate, Perry Sanders Jr., who objected to an autopsy. The problem was we never got any. Ms. Wallaces belief that former L.A.P.D. of him on video, so sorry if I misrepresented that. Now David Kenner has what we call hes got privileged communications, because hes the attorney. On March 7, Wallace presented an award to Toni Braxton at the 1997 Soul Train Music Awards and was booed by some of the audience. If anybody that we talked to had any information on David Mack, we always made sure that was then pushed over into the civil case. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Without his years of nuanced insight into the vast array of characters involved, he says, the investigation began to peter out as he watched helplessly. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. Theresa used to live at 5 Hope St, North Attleborough, MA 02760. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. Immediately following the shooting, reports surfaced linking Wallace's murder with that of Shakur's six months earlier, due to similarities in the drive-by shootings and the highly publicized East CoastWest Coast hip hop feud, of which Shakur and Wallace had been central figures. Under FBI policy, Swann's interview couldn't be recorded on tape, Kading says. They included: In one snippet, Kading was made to sound as if he had helped Del Real's brother, Albert, evade spousal-abuse charges. This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. On the eve of the trial, a key witness who was expected to testify, Kevin Hackie, revealed that he suffered memory lapses due to psychiatric medications. Shortly after Wallace's death, Los Angeles Times writers Chuck Philips and Matt Lait reported that the key suspect in his murder was a member of the Southside Crips acting out of a personal financial motive, rather than on the gang's behalf. The theory was based on evidence provided by an informant named Psycho Mike[16] and the general resemblance of Muhammad to the facial composite generated during the investigation. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her name. LAPD took nearly a year to complete its investigation of Kading. heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "Notorious B.I.G. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. 163 (C.D. Because, the whole six-pack [photo lineup shown to Deal], the whole identification, the whole thing became corrupted. I dont believe that at all. View Teresa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. We were kind of bifurcated away from the civil investigation. Two years later, Kading moved north, where he became a rising star at LAPD. But the most important thing and Im not calling [him a liar], I think Eugene Deal is trying to help as best he can. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. Were precluded from having any conversations. Not only did Suge love Tupac, but he was his money maker. The gang culture has no regard for the law. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Every time we interviewed anybody that would be one of the questions wed ask: Well, what do you know about David Mack? However, the rap moguls accused of hiring them were still very much alive. Pat Gannon, called him into his office and told him, Allegations were made in the Torres case. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. Well these two guys that were both talking to law enforcement about the same time This is one of the key mistakes that the L.A.P.D. In the decade and a half since the two most famous homicides in hip-hop history, police have made no arrests. We followed every viable lead that we had at the time and pushed it to the point where we needed something else to occur in order to move the case forward. The report said that the third bullet struck "the left side of the scrotum, causing a very shallow, .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}38in[10mm] linear laceration." The prosecution basically got caught doing something they didn't know was wrong, but the judge ruled it a discovery violation, Kading says. ", "Interview: Former L.A.P.D. Wilson admonished Searight, not Kading, for failing to collect all available recordings of phone calls between Kading and Derrick Smith at a Santa Ana jail.
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