Slain rapper Notorious B.I.G.'s murder is to be reinvestigated - a new team of detectives have been assigned to the case. The hitmaker, real name Christopher Wallace, was at the height of his career when he was gunned down Los in Angeles in 1997 after leaving a record party. He was 24. Los Angeles Assistant City Attorney Don Vincent told city council members on Thursday a new group of Robbery-Homicide Division detectives would reopen the case.

The rapper's family, along with singer Faith Evans, filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department, alleging rogue police office David A Mack, a convicted bank robber, orchestrated the rapper's killing on behalf of Death Row Records chief Marion "Suge" Knight, and department heads covered it up.

The case went to trial last summer but ended in a mistrial with the city later ordered to pay $1.1 million in sanctions to the family for deliberately concealing evidence in the case. A retrial is expected later this year. The new team of investigators was assigned to the case after Los Angeles city council members became outraged over the police department's handling of the case and the costly court defeat.

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