The family of Notorious BIG, aka Christopher Wallace, has asked the judge in their ongoing wrongful death lawsuit for permission to expand its case, in order to add the contention that police officer Rafael Perez was on duty at Petersen Automotive Museum when Biggie was shot and killed on 9 March 1997 - a fact crucial to their current case. This request was part of the submitted 94 page motion in which the Wallace Family detail a list of incidents linking police to crimes involving rap stars, including Snoop Dogg and Tupac.
Perez himself is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, and neither are other people previously alleged to have had ties to the killing of Biggie - including Suge Knight, former suspect Amir Muhammad and police officer David Mack. As previously reported, this suit is directed at the city of Los Angeles over their mismanagement of the investigation in to Notorious BIG's death, though as part of that case it does allege that police officers working for Death Row had some involvement.