Skip to main content  Investigation into death of Notorious
B.I.G. heats up  By Ted Rowlands, CNN Click to play Mystery
surrounds rappers' deaths   • Christopher Wallace was shot and
killed in 1997   • A source says the unsolved case was
"reinvigorated" because of new information   • The source would
not say what the new information was  Los Angeles (CNN) -- A
task force made up of local and federal law enforcement agencies
is actively pursuing leads into the 1997 slaying of hip hop
artist Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or
Notorious B.I.G., according to two sources familiar with the
investigation.   On March 9, 1997, Wallace, 24, was shot and
killed while riding in a Suburban that was driving away from a
music industry party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los
Angeles.  Los Angeles police said a lone gunman in a Chevy
Impala pulled alongside the Suburban and opened fire on Wallace,
who was in the passenger seat. Witnesses described the suspect
as being an African-American man wearing