Missing rappers found dead in Detroit days after canceled performance

Two missing rappers and a friend were found dead on Thursday (February 2, 2023) in an abandoned Michigan apartment building, nearly two weeks after they went missing the night their show was canceled.

According to Detroit News, authorities discovered the bodies of Armani Kelly, 28, Dante Wicker, 31, and Montoya Givens, 31, under debris at the vacant Northcourse Apartments in Highland Park on Thursday around 6 p.m.

The three (two rappers and a friend) went missing on January 21 after their performance at Lounge 31 was canceled due to ‘technical problems.’ Following the reports that they had gone missing, the police launched a search.

The men had been shot, one of the sources told the paper.

Investigators were led to the area after obtaining the three men’s cellular data. Their three phones “pinged” to the area near the large, abandoned apartment complex. Members of several units from multiple police agencies searched the building, finally discovering the bodies in the basement, beneath old construction equipment. The victims had been shot, a source told Detroit News.

Kelly, 27, reportedly told his fiancée that his show at Lounge 31 had been canceled due to an equipment issue and planned to link up with his two friends to find some open mic events, The Detroit News reported.

He picked up Wicker, 31, and Givens, 31, in his car that evening.

Kelly’s fiancée said she couldn’t reach him sometime after 7:30 p.m. after texting and calling his phone several times.

Last week, police spotted Kelly’s car, a 2017 Chevrolet Equinox, on the road without a license plate. A 15-year-old boy was behind the wheel and was taken into police custody.

The teen told officers that a man had instructed him to pick up the car from a location in Detroit’s west side, The Detroit News reported.

Investigators looked through the boy’s texts and calls with the man and learned he had an outstanding warrant involving alleged fraud. They searched his home Monday and took him in for questioning, a source told the outlet.

Police also recovered surveillance video of a man cleaning out the Equinox with gloves on.

The 15-year-old was arrested and charged in connection to his possession of Kelly’s vehicle.

A day before the bodies were found, Detroit police brought in a person of interest for questioning, sources told The Detroit News.

At least two of the mothers of the men had been contacted by police about the grisly discovery — though investigators said the remains haven’t been IDed, according to the local paper.

“They told me they found the three bodies. … I don’t know what I’m going to do; how I’m going to bury him,” Given’s mother Cat Fogle told the paper.

All three men had recently been paroled from prison, where they met one another, according to Kelly’s fiancée.

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