Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks was the chief of police when Poole was investigating , and he told CNN the accusations about a police cover-up are `` absurd . '' Christopher Wallace was shot and killed in 1997 . A source says the unsolved case was `` reinvigorated '' because of new information . The sources say that a man named Robert James Earl Ray is believed to have been responsible for Wallace's murder, but he has never been charged with it.
Christopher Wallace was shot and killed in 1997 . A source says the unsolved case was `` reinvigorated '' because of new information . The sources say that a man named Robert James Earl Ray is believed to have been responsible for Wallace's murder, but he has never been charged with it.