As Amoeba reports, the producer was killed by an unknown assailant, and close friends and family couldn't recall any enemies of the musician. It was only after the murder was featured on America's Most Wanted that a tip led to the arrest of Derrick Blair, but the suspect was never charged due to lack of evidence.
Following the murder, several of Paul's collaborators, including Super Lover Cee and Casanova Rud, were questioned as suspects. While they were cleared, the artists later spoke out that the investigation was damaging to their careers. "We were dropped from our label, our management gave up on us, people that were for us weren't anymore," Rud told Platform 8470. "To me, it felt like we were blacklisted."
Queens-based rapper Large Professor spoke about the difficult time in the local rap community after Paul's death where several close friends and associates were suspects, telling Crunkster, "He got shot up and that's all I knew. It was hard for me to understand. There were speculations about why he got shot. The people it might've been were actually sitting there at the funeral. It was confusing."
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