", Loose Women star lined up to be Strictly's first contestant in wheelchair, GMB's Kate Garraway reveals crippling cost of caring for her husband Derek, Mum identified after dead baby is found on heathland, Radio star rushed to hospital after suffering brain haemorrhage, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. "[19] The Wallace suit had asked for $500 million from the city. I need to qualify that, because it might look negligent if you just said, Well, he never talked to him. 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.. Sure enough, just five months after Keffe D alleged he'd watched his nephew, Baby Lane Anderson, kill Shakur on orders from Sean Combs, Kading's investigative team hit a second home run when one of Suge Knight's baby mommas fingered Knight as having handed her the money to pay for Smalls' murder. Harry Billups (suspected shooter by, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 20:52. It's nothing.' Keffe D tells the cops he was offered $1 million to kill Death Row rapper Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, the label's former CEO. Theresa lived at address, Vermont. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. Theresa Kay Swann is a real estate broker in Onalaska, Texas with license number 351980. Perhaps luckily for the rappers' families and fans still seeking closure, Kading made copies of nearly every investigative report and taped confession before he left LAPD. We wanted a million. In another stunning confession, detailed in LAPD documents reviewed by the Weekly, the mother of one of Knight's children, identified in Kading's book as Theresa Swann, breaks down in tears, stating that the former Death Row boss gave her the money to pay Wardell Poochie Fouse Knight's close associate and a fellow member of the Mob Piru Bloods to kill Smalls. [13] The New York Times described Broomfield's documentary as a "largely speculative" and "circumstantial" account relying on flimsy evidence, failing to "present counter-evidence" or "question sources. Theresa L Swann in Vermont Death Index, 1985-2012. But for Duane Keffe D Keith Davis, a shot caller for the Southside Crips, it now happens to be his lawyer's office. For the third time, Wilson determined that a discovery violation had occurred. [34], United States District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper granted summary judgment to the city on December 17, 2007, finding that the Wallace family had not complied with a California law that required the family to give notice of its claim to the State within six months of Wallace's death. The hit was allegedly orchestrated by Death Row Records boss Marion "Suge" Knight in response to the 1996 murder of his money maker Tupac Shakur and to maintain his hardcore gangster status, according to former LAPD detective Greg Kading. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. 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. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Keffe D tells Kading on tape that his nephew leaned over, and Orlando [Baby Lane] rolled down the window and popped him [Shakur]. Later, he adds, If they would've drove on my side [of the car] I would've popped him.. And that something someone else coming forward to corroborate what we had didn't happen.. after killing B.I.G. But Searight had guessed wrong the defense never called on Kading, who was forced to sit silently while the attacks on him in court piled up. Estate of Wallace v. City of Los Angeles, 229 F.R.D. I wouldve loved to have talked to Voletta Wallace during the investigation. Greg Kading: No, actually I dont. I was involved in the criminal investigation. DX: And do you believe Poochie dressed up in Nation Of Islam garb? I have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' [20], The Los Angeles Times printed conflicting theories of the murder in different sections of the paper. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. If Death Row didnt retaliate Tupacs murder then talk is that they are punk bitches for letting Bad Boy walk over them. For other inquiries, Contact Us. It was described by The New York Times as "one of the longest running and most contentious celebrity cases in history. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. . to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. He added: If he was going to let some rival crew come in and try to murder him without a reaction, what did that do for the reputation hed spent years building? I dont believe that he was there completely alone though. he came to Theresa to grab $400 to get out of town. On Monday (October 3rd), the LA Weekly published a jaw-dropping article regarding the revelations made by former Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading in his just-released book, Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations. Im just drawing that conclusion based on all of the other collective information: the fact that Theresa, the girlfriend, confesses, she tells us that she had paid Poochie at the direction of Knight, [that] Poochie had an Impala that Knight had bought him, and then we have these other people that were in the inner circle, the other Death Row [Records staff]/gang members who all told us about this relationship that Suge had with Poochie. 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. Both Baby Lane and Poochie implicated as the triggermen by the team's sources for the murders of Shakur and Smalls had been shot dead years ago, casualties of Crips-versus-Bloods battles set off by the celebrities' slayings. Kading was branded a dishonest cop, as any Google search will confirm. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Notorious B.I.G. By the time Kading graduated from high school, he was calling his friend's father Dad, and at 18 he signed up with the Sheriff's Department. In Kading's Murder Rap, he paraphrases Swann as explaining why she believes the Death Row honcho ordered the kill: He was really mad about [Shakur's murder]. In the decade and a half since the two most famous homicides in hip-hop history, police have made no arrests. I mean, theres just no way to know. The team of feds and LAPD officers believed they were on the brink of solving one of the most haunting cold cases in popular history. Including 662. . Everybody that we would talk to and bring that up and ask those questions it was always the same answer: Well yeah How do you know? Well, its what I read in the newspaper. Well, why do you believe that? I read it in the newspaper. So everything about those guys was stuff that was hearsay information. Though Kading spends a chapter attacking Poole's stubborn conviction that Death Rowaffiliated LAPD officers helped take out the nation's fastest-rising rap star, and follows many of the same leads as the Times, Kading's core criticism that the LAPD sacrificed justice for self-preservation tends to parallel Poole's. We know they're baseless, Greg, totally without foundation. Were precluded from having any conversations. He cited the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence to the defense, such as phone calls between Kading and Smith and between Kading and Del Real, as well as his police notebooks. He had previously testified to knowledge of involvement between Knight, Mack, and Muhammed, but later said that the Wallace attorneys had altered his declarations to include words he never said. In July 2009, under former LAPD Chief William Bratton, lead detective Kading was abruptly pulled from the task force. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. In his book he says that she fronted alot of businesses for Suge to wash/hide his money. DX: You believe he did the shooting himself? Kading writes in Murder Rap that his former teammates carried all of the team's hard-earned evidence to the LAPD archive room to collect dust. Under FBI policy, Swann's interview couldn't be recorded on tape, Kading says. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. DX: Just bringing the investigation up to more currently What evidence did you collect in addition to the statements of Theresa Swann to tie Wardell Poochie Fouse and Suge Knight to the murder of Biggie Smalls? I think there was some influence there that caused him to point out that picture. Suge and Theresa have a long history of criminal activity together and share a . Previously, I worked in the legal field as a secretary/bookkeeper. Pooh Shiesty Ordered To Pay Restitution To Victims Of 2020 Shooting, Larry June & The Alchemist Announce Joint Album The Great Escape, Nicki Minaj Returns With New 2000s-Sampling Single Red Ruby Da Sleeze, Kodak Black Pays Heartfelt Tribute To XXXTENTACION: We Lost A Legend, J. Cole Contemplates Retirement On New Collaboration With BTS J-Hope, The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2023 (so far), Jadakiss Believes Labels Should Be Held Responsible For Violent Lyrics. '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. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* - also known as Biggie Smalls -was killed 25 years ago in a drive-by shooting, Greg Kading, a retired detective, lead an investigation into Biggie's murder, Suge Knight is currently serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter in a separate case, Biggie was shot in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, aged 24, Suge allegedly set up Biggie's murder in retaliation for his friend Tupac's death, Tupac was killed in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996, Funeral cars filled with floral tributes for Biggie in Brooklyn in a farewell drive-by, Former detective Kading does not believe the LAPD will ever close Biggie's case, 1996 murder of his money maker Tupac Shakur, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). DX: Now, I don't 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 Knight's nine-year-old daughter,. 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?". Greg Kading: Well, we dont know. By the time Kading was cleared of wrongdoing in the TorresNumero Uno case, the Biggie Smalls investigation had been called off. About a year later, LAPD led by new Chief Charlie Beck chose to not make any public statement that its probe had cleared Kading, whose life was falling apart. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. Fouse, a Mob Piru gang member and an associate of Knight, died on July 24, 2003, after being shot in the back while riding his motorcycle in Compton. View Teresa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. "Notorious B.I.G. The two SUVs were trailed by a Chevrolet Blazer carrying Bad Boy Records' director of security, Paul Offord, driven by an off-duty Inglewood police officer.[5]. There was never a last name or anything else connected to it. Yet this is when the investigation was inexplicably derailed. Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. to not identify former L.A.P.D. Voletta Wallace was horrified. Detective Poole traded his job to pursue a labyrinth of failed litigation against LAPD. 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. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. After Greg left, we finally made the decision, McClure says. Read 10 highlights from the Keffe D confessions. 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. Rapper Nas felt at the time that Wallace's death, along with that of Tupac Shakur, "was nearly the end of rap."[10]. Trust me, if theres anybody that I wanted to be guilty, it was David Mack. At the time the multi-agency task force was formed by the LAPD, Smalls' mother, Voletta Wallace, was suing the City of Los Angeles for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars because she believed dirty cops had been involved in her son's murder. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. DX: Okay. Teresa SwannWoodfin - Teresa Cynthia Sehion Swann, 45, passed away Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at her home.She was a daughter of Barry Sehion of Oteen and the late Linda Gail Martin.In addition to her Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. Keffe D gave the FBI a different story in 1997, denying his nephew was involved. I was like, 'We'll wipe their ass out, quick. In other words, LAPD found it was not Kading's behavior but that of the U.S. Attorney's Office that botched the Numero UnoGeorge Torres case. Theresa passed away on March 1 1999, at age 65. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. In his confession, Keffe D takes the officers on a trip back to the night Shakur died. If Death Row didnt retaliate Tupacs murder then talk is that they are punk bitches for letting Bad Boy walk over them. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. The allegations that blame Tupac Shakur's murder on Sean Combs tend to strengthen a different, yet equally controversial, L.A. Times article from 2008, in which Philips fingers Combs for initially setting up a bloody mugging of Shakur in 1994, two years before he was killed in Las Vegas. [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]. By the time Kading had Swann in the hot seat, two other sources had pointed to Poochie (Fouse) as Smalls' probable killer. What evidence in addition to her statements, besides just you mentioned the I.D. . Poochie was not a guy who was afraid to go out and pull the trigger. In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. Now David Kenner has what we call hes got privileged communications, because hes the attorney. It was definitely necessary to follow-up on it, but it wasnt enough to build a whole theory around. [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. 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. Wallace". It was expedient for them to cripple the case in the interests of avoiding a potentially difficult prosecution. Greg Kading: Yeah, and thisll probably sound a little bit suspicious to you, but working in these federal task forces all the different agencies have their own internal policies about interview protocol. The piece was almost entirely based on anonymous sources. It was almost as if, in some surreal way, Russell Poole had been right all along, Kading writes in the final chapter of Murder Rap. Knight directed [Swann] to contact 'Poochie' and advise him that Knight wanted Wallace murdered in exchange for an unspecified amount of money.. Kading's reputation almost certainly will become an issue upon Murder Rap's publication. Reach the writers at [emailprotected] and [emailprotected]. Corrupt LAPD Officer David Mack, poster boy for the late-1990s Rampart scandal that would come to cast doubt on much of what LAPD said and did, lurched to the forefront of Poole's investigation after Mack was arrested for an unrelated $722,000 bank heist. Kading says he never got the chance to clear up the confusion because he was never called to testify. Aiken - Ms. Theresa H. "Teri" Swann, 62, passed away Tuesday, December 6, 2022. According to the report, three of the four shots were not fatal. First, do you believe Amir Muhammad was at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed? Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. 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. . He told me to tell Poochie to get over there and take care of it, you know what I mean?. This is not the first time a gangster has done business at this Beverly Hills office building. Wilson publicly singled out Kading for making what appeared to be inappropriate promises of leniency and favors to the two witnesses. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. She had been a resident . I had other cases: the Grim Sleeper, Michael Jackson. Join Facebook to connect with Theresa Swann and others you may know. [12] The investigation stalled, however, and no one was ever formally charged. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. officers in your findings as having been part of the Biggie Smalls murder plot? Kevin McClure with the blessing of brand-new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. Although Kading was one of the focal points of the defense's argument, the outrageous misconduct referred to in [Judge Wilson's] motion was related to items of discovery that the government did not provide to the defense, the report states. [5][13] In the book, Sullivan accused Marion "Suge" Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records and a known Bloods affiliate, of conspiring with corrupt Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer David Mack to kill Wallace and make both deaths appear to be the result of the rap rivalry. A police report quoted in the book says that "Theresa Swann" (an alias), one of Suge Knight's baby mothers, confessed to taking money from him in order to set up the hit: "During one or more of. Suge told her to go see Poochie and take care of Biggie. But I dont believe that some guy in the Nation Of Islam was the shooter. 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. About Teresa Swann. Smalls, a 400-pound Brooklyn native, was slain in a March 1997 drive-by shooting while rolling out of a star-studded party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A.'s Miracle Mile. Kading tells him on tape: Everything in this report has to be right on, because if down the road it's determined that some of these details are incorrect, then everything's off the table. Keffe D responds, Don't bullshit me, and I won't bullshit y'all.. that you believe was him on video, any other evidence in addition to that? Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. Cooper declared a mistrial in Voletta Wallace's civil suit against LAPD and fired a stern warning shot at the department, awarding Voletta Wallace more than $1 million in legal fees. It was the right decision.. And this is their own policy that you can look into and probably verify. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. In response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. Two months after Swann's 2009 confession that she was the paymaster in Biggie Smalls' killing, Kading was taken off the case because Internal Affairs had to probe his role in the Torres prosecution in which he was ultimately cleared. The problem was we never got any. As a result of the newly discovered evidence, the judge declared a mistrial and awarded the Wallace family its attorneys' fees. But the most important thing and Im not calling [him a liar], I think Eugene Deal is trying to help as best he can. And in a bizarre twist, one of Suge's baby mamas acted as the go-between for the infamous hit against Biggie - real name Christopher Wallace - before breaking rank and revealing the entire plot to cops, Kading said. 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. Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. DX: Well, Russell Pooles theory got a little bit more solidified in Nick Broomfields Biggie & Tupac documentary, when former Bad Boy Records bodyguard Eugene Deal identified Amir Muhammad as being present at the Petersen Automotive Museum that night, and that Amir actually approached Diddy first in a possible attempt to shoot him. DX: I read in the LA Weekly piece that Swanns interview wasnt recorded? Theresa L Swann was born on May 15 1933. We are relying on her statement, but it is backed up by other people within Death Row, who were all trying to get $25,000 in untraceable funds for something Suge needed done. Kading claims that while Poochie was looking to ingratiate himself with Knight, the record boss needed to strike back at East Coast gangsters for Tupacs killing six months earlier in Las Vegas. He was 24 years old. Gradually, Kading says, all leads dead-ended. SpouseParentChildSiblingFamily memberOther, Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report, Tupac Shakur; Credit: PHOTO COPYRIGHT NEWSCOM, Ciel Spa aka @CielSpaBH located the SLS Hotel i, Welcoming over 100,000 people every year, what beg, The holiday season is a time of giving! And so were like, Okay, well this seems to be his kinda go-to guy when hes having these kind of problems. And so thats all the stuff thats discussed in the book, and it will compound the girls statement.
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