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FBI Probes Rap Star's '97 Killing; The agency pursues a 6-year-old theory that a rogue LAPD officer arranged the murder of Notorious B.I.G. with rap. 'mogut Suge Knight.:[HOME EDITION] Chuck Philips. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.: Mar 20, 2004. pg. B.1. PLAINTEF EXHIBT Full Text (1242 words) Copyright (c) 2004 Los Angeles Times) Seven years after the killing of rap star Notorious B.i.G., the FBl is investigating allegations that a rogue Los documents and law enforcement sources. Amir Muhammad, Mack's friend and college roommate, to ambush the rapper outside the Petersen Automotive. Museum on Wilshire Boulevard. Over the years, the LAPD has offered conflicting assessments of the theory, which police at one point took seriously. Documents show that LAPD detectives are now focusing on an alternative theory that centers on a Houston rap entrepreneur. Mack, Knight and Muhammad, a Southland mortgage broker, have long denied any involvement in the 1997 killing "I have stated from the outset that I have nothing whatsoever to do with any of this," Muhammad, who also uses the name Harry Billups, said in a telephone interview Thursday from his attorney's office. "I've done nothing wrong. I don't have anything to hide.". Knight, founder of Death Row Records, also rejected the allegations.. "I don't know David Mack or Amir Muhammad. I've never met them," he said by phone from Mule Creek State. Prison, where he is serving time for a probation violation. "The FBI has never contacted me, but I'm glad they are looking into all of this stuff. I hope they solve it.'. Notorious B.l.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was gunned down just after midnight March 9, Brooklyn rapper was sitting in the passenger seat of a sport utility vehicle at a red light when a lone assassin in a. dark Impala pulled up in the neighboring lane and opened fire.. The killing occurred six months after rap star Tupac Shakur was fatally wounded in a drive-by attack in Las Vegas. No one has ever been charged in either killing.. Early on, detectives speculated that the murders may have stemmed from a rivalry between East Coast and. West Coast rappers. Before their deaths, Shakur and Wailace had been feuding, and a rivalry between their. record labels, Los Angeles-based Death Row and New York-based Bad Boy Entertainment, had escalated into a series of assaults and shootings committed by members of Compton's Southside Crips gang The theory now being investigated by the FBI was first advanced in 1998 by then-LAPD Det. Russeil Poole. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/583747181.html?MAC=0d87ecfef255c4896d31a723a...3/22/2004