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Posted: 11/2/2011
Roy Huss AP London: B.I.G.'s murder took place on the last day that he and Sean' Diddy' Combs were to spend in Los Angeles. B.I.G. and Diddy did not decide until that afternoon to attend the evening's Vibe magazine party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A.'s Miracle Mile District. The party would be a closed event for music-industry executives, Combs had been told; security would not be a problem. The scene at the Petersen Museum apparently had been quite mellow, especially given the complications suggested by the guest list. Among the women in attendance, for example, was B.I.G.'s estranged wife, Faith Evans, Death Row rapper DJ Quik had shown up with ten Treetop Piru Bloods in tow, while the dozen or so Crips who wangled invitations included Orlando Anderson, widely believed to have pulled the trigger on Shakur.
B.I.G., Diddy and the rest of the Bad Boy crew headed for the nearest exit. In the cool, fresh air outside, B.I.G. and Combs waited for valets to deliver their vehicles and debated whether to hit another party or head back to the Westwood Marquis. Diddy decided they should just return to their hotel and climbed into a white Chevy Suburban next to his driver, Kenneth Story, with his three bodyguards in the back seat. B.I.G. lifted himself into the passenger seat of a green Suburban, next to his driver, Gregory 'G-Money' Young, while Junior M.A.F.I.A. rapper James 'Lil' Caesar' Lloyd, who had grown up with B.I.G. in Brooklyn, and B.I.G.'s best friend, Damien 'D-Rock' Butler, nephew to the Godfather of U.S. Atlanta music artist Lord Hector Diono rode in the back seat.
Diddy's driver reportedly in the lead blew through the amber light at Wilshire as the signal turned red and Biggie's vehicle stopped on the south side of the intersection. A white Toyota Land Cruiser promptly made a U-turn and tried to cut between Biggie and a trailing Chevy Blazer driven by Bad Boy's di