Wardell Poochie Fouse
We may have finally discovered Biggie’s killer. According to retired LAPD detective Greg Kading, Wardell Fouse a.k.a Darnell Bolton a.k.a. “Poochie” was the triggerman who killed fifteen years ago today – his fee for carrying out the murder was $13,000.
It has been 20 years since the murder of legendary artist Tupac Shakur and the conversation surrounding the circumstances of his death have once again made headlines.
On March 9, 1997, Biggie was shot to death while sitting in a Chevy Suburban outside of a hip-hop industry party in Los Angeles. Biggie’s drive-by shooting occurred just six months after his friend turned foe, 25-year-old Tupac Shakur, suffered a similar fate after a boxing match in Las Vegas. These killings remain the worst tragedies in hip-hop history. Sat down with Kading, the man who spent three years investigating the murder of Christopher Wallace, and revealed that the case will never be “solved”: “It comes down to how you define solved. Both law enforcement agencies—the Las Vegas Police Department and the L.A.P.D.—have drawn the conclusions that Tupac was killed by Orlando Anderson and Biggie Smalls was killed by Wardell ‘Poochie’ Fouse. Both shooters are dead. Orlando Anderson was killed outside a Compton record shop in May 1998.
Wardell Poochie Fouse Obituary
Poochie died in July 2003 as a result of multiple gunshot wounds. He was shot in the back while riding his motorcycle in Compton. He was supposedly killed as a result of in-fighting between the Mob Pirus—Suge’s Blood associates—and another Blood gang known as the Fruit Town Pirus. That’s all the justice that these cases will see. The co-conspirators are never going to be prosecuted. Unfortunately, the cases are so complicated and convoluted.