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Christopher Wallace, was gunned down March 9, 1997, after a music industry party outside the Peterson Automotive Museum in the Mid- Wilshire district. The case has spawned several investigations, and a cottage industry of books, documentaries and magazine articles exploring. possible conspiracy theories involving Wallace and Tupac Shakur, the other leading rap artist of his generation, who was shot to death in Las Vegas the year before. No one has been charged in either slaying. b6 Early on, Los Angeles Police Department detectives speculated that the b7C kiltings stemmed from a turf war between East Coast and West Coast rappers. Before their deaths, Shakur and Wallace had been feuding, and a. rivalry between their record labeis. Los Angeles- based Death Row and New York-based Bad Boy Entertainment, had escalated into a series of assaults and shootings. and other relatives sued the city three years ago, alleging that an ex-LAPD office.. conspired to kill The suit says ambushed Wallace as his motorcade waited at a stoplight.. However, the FBt, citing lack of evidence, closed an investigation into this theory in January. On June 13, the family dropped as defendants in the suit. The next day, the rapper's relatives persuaded U.S. District Judae Florence-Marie Cooper to issue the arrest warrant after. answer a subpoena to testify in the trial. statements Friday cast further doubt on the theory at the center of the lawsuit: that corrupt police officers orchestrated the slaying of the 24- year-old rapper, and that top LAPD officials covered up their actions. In a declaration filed June 6, 2004,. had "persona! knowledge" regarding Wallace's slaying, alleging that "persons within Death Row Records offered $25.000 to a law enforcement officer" to kill the rapper. According td declaration, it was "well known within Death Row" tha ther LAPD officers worked as "covert aaents" for the rap. record lape observeq at the 1995 Btack Image Awards, a 1996 boxing match in