It seems hard to believe that Mac Dre could end up lying dead in a muddy ditch for more than an hour after crashing in such a violent way. Slaying victims Watkins and Akins were in Las Vegas for a Snoop Dogg concert at the Palms and were staying at the MGM Grand. If you trace the trail of police reports, you arrive at this summary of the facts: on the night Mac Dre was murdered, he was supposed to do a club appearance. Whatever happened, happened, you know what Im saying?, Sleep Dank says. It was an era marked by Mac Dres prolific post-prison recordings, where he created a dense body of work in such a short period of time that I once referred to him as the West Coast Max B. When Mac Dre reached out in early October, Davila offered to have his cousin, and good friend, Harold Piersey drive Mac Dres crew around on Halloween weekend. Whitmill used his own money to fund the October 29 show at the Armory, shelling out the $6,000 deposit before plane tickets were even bought. The year Mac Dre was killed here was one of our bloodiest. O tom, ako pouvame vae informcie, sa dozviete viac v naich zsadch ochrany osobnch dajov a zsadch pouvania sborov cookie. Mac dre daughter diss Jt after he sent goons to beat up and rob her pimp part 1 - YouTube Mac dre daughter diss Jt after he beat up her pimp and exposed that she worked at McDonald's part. But on July 12, Corleone was arrested in San Francisco for allegedly beating Laursen. When paramedics arrived, however, Dre was dead, reportedly from a gunshot wound to the neck. Detectives spoke with dozens of witnesses and suspects over the years; they spent an untold amount of money and manpower to solve this case and yet theyve never even released a suspect name. 1 / 10. When speaking with detectives in the weeks after the murder, DJ Fresh, who was the soundman and DJ that night, remembered Fat Tone briefly hopping on stage after being invited up by Mac Dre. During their talk, Mouton said, Dow made vague references to the killings and mentioned a third murder. Fat Tone did little to quell the rumors of his menace. Mathis was arrested July 12 in San Francisco, where police said he had beaten his girlfriend. Davila seems to feel guilty for the role he played in his friends death and has tried to find ways to tell detectives since getting arrested in 2006. Meanwhile, another car -- a white Pontiac Sunfire -- was spotted speeding away from the scene. Bay Area rapper Mac Dre began his career at 18 and quickly became an influential force in early west coast hip-hop. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. He made the men drop everything and then told them to leave. To my knowledge MD was never married, but he definitely has a daughter; that implies that he was likely close to the daughter's mom at one point in his life, however, I can't find anything about her mom with a quick Google search, and we can't really be sure how close they really were - really not unheard of for famous or rising (in MD's case) According to agents, the gang was responsible for 13 robberies, netting around 1.5 million that they claimed was used to invest into Dres rap career. LaTanya Young . Fat Tone and his lawyer met up with Detective Babcock on November 16 and denied any involvement in the murder, while acknowledging that hes heard the rumors about his alleged involvement. Hes the one that kept us all together. A few feet away, 22-year-old Jermaine Akins -- a friend who was a fugitive from federal cocaine-selling charges -- also lay dead after being shot 13 times. Dres crew was determined to find out. He was 34. 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They parked the car and took out masks, but as they did, a television news crew whod caught word about the heist on the police scanner arrived. By 2004, Kansas City and The Bay Area shared a mutual affection towards each others burgeoning hip-hop scenes, acting as the conduit to California for fledgling midwest rappers looking to gain access to a portion of the rap community previously unavailable to them. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Theyd been spotted by KCPD in a stolen van near 59th Street and Blue Hills Road, and had attempted to evade police by jumping out and hiding in a nearby backyard. Dre would get caught in this culture of violence in the early morning hours of Nov.1st, 2004. He doesnt recall hearing from Whitmill again. Mac Dres fans, friends, and the Bay Area rap world was devastated. Po kliknut na tlaidlo Spravova nastavenia zskate alie informcie a mete spravova svoje voby. Corleone said he shot Watkins, then chased Atkins into the street and shot him while he was on the ground pleading for his life, the warrant alleged. He would often frequent the Country Club Crest neighborhood, known locally as The Crest. Anyone with. [5], Andre Louis Hicks was born in Oakland, California on July 5, 1970, to Allen Hicks and Wanda Salvatto. He asked him if hed submit a DNA sample to help with the investigation. [10] Vallejo police began focusing on the Crest Neighborhood as a source of the crime. The area was poorly lit thanks to a series of street lights along the west edge of the highway. And would they have killed Tone if he wasnt? The Mandalorian, March 1. Bombshell claims that Dr Dre's daughter is homeless and living in her car has put his troubled family life into sharp focus. Although Mac Minister maintains his innocence, the judge decided to uphold his life sentence in 2010 after Dows lawyers argued that mistakes were made during trial. I think someones got it misconstrued. According to his story, Whitmill then sent Calvert Papoose Antwine II and Taron T-Baby Smith to kill Mac Dre, which they allegedly did with two separate guns and driving the black Infiniti. I feel bad because I know Dres family would have wanted to get justice for him, Davila says in January 2021. His mother, Wanda Salvatto, said she'd heard about her son's death at least three times before. Mac Minister was a suspect in the murder of a call girl from Utah named Lee Danae Laurson. At the time of Dres upbringing, The Crest was an area that suffered from poverty, gangs, violent crime, and other results of the crack epidemic. [14] On the way back to Fresno, the car was pulled over and surrounded by officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as Vallejo police. He fathered a daughter named Drane. In 2004, Mac Dre was murdered in Kansas City. They were greeted at the airport by Davila, who picked the group up in his Escalade. Dr. Dre, born Andre Romelle Young, was called out by his 38-year-old daughter, LaTanya Young, who is currently living out of her car. Airfare, hotels and food while Mac Dre and crew were in town also landed on Whitmill, who sent a contract and the first payment early in October. He took the tip to KCPD and the case was solved not long after. He claimed to have sold the car to Fat Tone on the day before Halloween. This isnt how youd expect someone to act after witnessing their own van being shot up with a friend and family member inside. Charlotte, her sisters Elizabeth, Emily, and Maria were then enrolled by their father whos was a clegyman at the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge, near Kirkby Lonsdale in nerby Lancashire. And like most of the other Bay Area rappers, he had a large fan base in Kansas City, Missouri. During the past few months, Minister had befriended Fat Tone, who, by now, J-Diggs had publicly cleared in the murder of Mac Dre, promising to help him with his rap career by introducing him to various rappers and other VIPs in the rap game. "She wouldn't stand for it," Hendrix said. He said that one day after July, the black Infiniti pulled up alongside him as he walked down the street, near 52nd and Paseo, in Kansas City. I just couldnt be responsible for putting another man behind bars. Dre got jumped into The Crest. Mac Dre & Ray Luv) 7. His album, Back in da Hood, was a result of these recordings, as were several guest verses he recorded for other rappers. In the world of hip-hop, police say, bad blood often means good business. A judge heard arguments over the issue on Friday and continued the matter to Sept. 23 for further discussion. Hicks, who grew up in Vallejo's hardscrabble Country Club Crest neighborhood, first gained radio airplay as a teenager with a song titled, ironically, "2 Hard 4 the (expletive) Radio." They then moved to the Vallejo area. This stuck out to Detective Babcock since the vehicle ramming hadnt been information released to the public. A culture of distrust exists between the Black community in Kansas City and the majority white police force that has been tasked to protect them. This monumental EP is the quintessential Bay Area deep cut; a springboard that launched the pimp archetype that artists like Mac Dre, Too $hort, Suga Free and E-40 would later expand on, and in some cases, perfect. A totaled, white Dodge Legacy van was found on an embankment below Highway 71. Born in Oakland, CA #34. He remembers first meeting Mac Dre in 1986. This is an excerpt from a court opinion published in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit describing what happened next: Five or ten minutes later, an officer heard some yelling and looked into the holding cell to find George lying face down on the floor, bleeding from the nose and mouth, and Antwine sitting on a bench a few feet away. Another informant from Leavenworth shared a similar story with Detective Babcock. Detectives eventually counted 30 bullet holes on the drivers side of the van, with copper bullets still lodged in two of the holes. Its not a mystery if you look at the case file.. He even went so far as to tell detectives that he witnessed the shooting himself and then went home, turned off his phone and went to bed. Will we ever know why he was actually killed, and by who? The limo was gone, but the white van driven by Harold Piersey was there, following behind. Because a city this offbeat deserves a newsletter with some [9] It was during his time in prison that Hicks developed a "better appreciation for freedom, life, fun. Motherfuckers would try to beat him up because they were jealous of him. According to the Daily Mail, she has been living out of her car and working as a delivery driver for DoorDash and Uber Eats. He was the first person to show my neighborhood that we dont have to sell crack anymore. 190 beefs with every Damu & Stevenson Village Crip. Whitmill said that hed need to check with his lawyer, Kansas City defense attorney Carl Bussey, before submitting to a mouth swab. "He said, 'I'm watching myself.' Mac Dre is one of the Bay Area's most beloved hip-hop figures of all time. Mac Dre would have been larger than Snoop, Sleep Dank says. He is a former metro editor and longtime reporter at the paper whose chief topics included policing, civil rights, public corruption and big-wave surfing. "He was proud he was a suspect.". According to Las Vegas police Detective Todd Hendrix, Watkins told his mother and girlfriend that Dow had promised him a meeting with Snoop Dogg. This was several years before he would appear on Americas Most Wanted, American Gangster and a show on the Investigation Discovery channel about women who may have killed their husbands. In his first interview with detectives taken the day after the murder, Whitmill states that he lost money. Dow, 35, and Mathis, 26, were indicted Nov. 2 on two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of Watkins and Akins. On July 25, 2005, Detective Babcock interviewed Kalise White, a woman who had just been jailed on drug charges. I could have gone home off of that case, but it just wasnt me.. First Name Mac #5. It took several years for Wanda Mac to deal with her son's passing and his status as a rising rapper who became more famous upon his death. [9], The city of Vallejo began experiencing a surge in bank robberies in the early 90s. All rights reserved. Davila told Babcock that he remembered seeing a black Infiniti pass his car, before witnessing Antwine hanging an automatic rifle out of the passenger side window, shooting recklessly into the drivers side of his white van. Will we ever find out the truth about the murder of Mac Dre? P.O.P. "I don't even know who's in the war," she said. Mathis had rented a house less than five blocks from the murder scene. Detective Babcock learned that the black Infiniti had been stolen out of a garage in Belton, Missouri the previous July. Officers accused of theft and illegal searches return to plainclothes work that fueled a scandal years ago. I finally got to the point where I could look at it from that point of view, she says. The father told police that he rescued his daughter once, in the month before the killing, but that she voluntarily returned to Las Vegas. Corleone and Laursen had evidently gone back to the Bay Area. The record signing and radio appearance were both meant to promote the October 29 concert at the National Guard Armory. Mac Dre was big enough for that. Diggs goes into some detail about the story on his song Rompaugraphy, and his interviews confirm he and his crew were in Kansas City head-hunting after Dres murder. In his interview with Babcock, Thibeaux said that he grew up with Whitmill in Kansas City and that hed heard him bragging about sending people to kill Mac Dre over a failed concert arrangement. By May of 2005, just five months after Mac Dres murder, San Francisco promoter Andre Mac Minister Dow and Jason Corleone Mathis, a pimp, were trappin in Vegas. He was also the founder of both Thizz Entertainment and Romp. The record store owner told detectives that fans were getting antsy and it all felt very unorganized. In a police report that Babcock wrote in November 2004, Whitmill allegedly told the detective that Mac Dre agreed to come to Kansas City and perform two live shows for a total of $12,500, with the first $6,000 to be paid immediately as a deposit. Cancers. A dark-colored SUV was seen speeding away. Little youngsters between the age of fourteen and twenty-one. He said they feared that the interview would only cause more problems for the people involved. Hes worked in the East Patrol Division, the Domestic Violence Unit, the Homicide Unit, the Mounted Patrol, the Generalist Squad and the Assault Squad, where hes currently a supervisor. The tipster had tried to reach Kansas City police, but couldnt get through. Mac Dres final album, released only 13 days before his murder, was meant to be the spiritual successor of The Macs first EP from 1988, The Game is Thick. Jailhouse snitches are notoriously unreliable. His story completely changed in 2008, after he was arrested for drug conspiracy and looking at 30 years in prison. The witness, Antione Mouton, came forward after Dow reached out to a prosecutor in Boudins office for help. But instead of introducing the men to the rap superstar, he and an accomplice allegedly took them to a deserted cul-de-sac and riddled them with bullets from an AK-47. The news station contacted Kansas City police and the car was located by 6 p.m., about 15 hours after the shooting took place, and it, too, was totaled. In October of 2004, a Kansas City man named Damon Whitmill hoped to capitalize on Mac Dres popularity by bankrolling and promoting a rap show at what was then the Kansas City National Guard Armory. Mouton testified under an alias, according to Gray. He found a computer and recording materials, as well as dozens of Mac Dre CDs originally meant for a merch table. The van then reportedly swerved across a grass median and four southbound lanes, crashing into a ditch. They had to make a brief stop at The Baymont, a hotel where members of Mac Dres crew were staying, before heading to The Sheraton. But its no wonder why the police didnt find the car. Dre ran with a local group of teens who referred to themselves as the Romper Room Crew named after the TV show, in reference to the crews youth. In 1992 he was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank robbery when his lyrics were used against him in court. [9] Hicks was released a year early from prison for good behavior on August 2, 1996, after serving four years. The white van allegedly belonged to Savino Davila, a 27-year-old man who prosecutors say was at the head of a drug trafficking organization that brought more than 330 pounds of cocaine into Kansas between 2000 and 2006. And I delivered it to the police. "The timing of it is uncanny.". Sleep Dank, a Vallejo rapper and friend of Mac Dres, was born and raised in the Country Club Crest. In a February 2021 interview, the Kansas City rapper Mr. Stinky said that he threw a show at the Atlantic Star the night before Mac Dres murder, which only added to the confusion later on. The witness didnt see the driver. Dre made a bunch of demo tapes that were popular in The Crest He was famous for his demo tapes, says Mac Mall but he first made waves in the larger Bay Area with his single Too Hard for the Fuckin Radio in 1989, while still a student at Vallejos Hogan High School. ZaRio Releases New Video She Dont Know Love. "[6] When asked about his childhood, Hicks stated that "Situations came out for the better most of them, I went through the little trials and the shit that I went through. In an interview with Kansas Citys The Pitch from 2005, Detective Babcock said that hes convinced that Fat Tone did not kill Mac Dre. Mac Dre Fans Also Viewed . Vallejo rapper Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks wasn't on MTV, on magazine covers or in movies. Authorities linked the killings to the fatal shooting of Andre Mac Dre Hicks after a show in Kansas City a year earlier. They were told that theyd get the rest of the money wired to them later in the week. Mac Dre Is A Member Of . But on March 13, 2006, Antwine finally admitted to detectives that he had been in possession of the black Infiniti used in Mac Dres murder. During the police interview, Thibeaux also says that Whitmill made a concerted effort to spread rumors that Kansas City rapper Fat Tone had been responsible for the killing, even though Whitmill knew he was innocent. Some people wanted to sell drugs, and do all that, Sleep Dank says. 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