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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="font-size:14px"><strong>Three rappers from Michigan &#8211; Armani Kelly, 27, Dante Wicker, 31 and Montoya Givens, 31, were found dead, nearly two weeks after they vanished </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="font-size:14px"><strong>Their bodies were discovered under construction debris at a vacant apartment building in Highland Park, Detroit, <strong>on Thursday &#8211; <strong>They had all been shot </strong></strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="font-size:14px"><strong>The three went missing on January 21 in Detroit after their performance at a night club was canceled </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Armani Kelly, aka &#8216;Marley Whoop,&#8217; had previously spent eight years in prison for armed robbery, which is where he met the other two missing men</strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="font-size:14px"><strong><strong>His family fears he may have been targeted by those he encountered in prison </strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Warren police last week arrested a 15-year-old boy driving Kelly&#8217;s Equinox without a license plate</strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Teen told cops a man told him to pick up the car on Schoolcraft on Detroit&#8217;s west side</strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Police Monday searched the home of the man who had an outstanding warrant involving fraud, then took him into custody for questioning</strong> </strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Armani-Kelly-left-Dante-Wicker-center-and-Montoya-Givens-right-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-429755" width="839" height="344"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Armani Kelly, [left], Dante Wicker, [center], and Montoya Givens, [right], have been found dead. They were last seen on January 21, in Detroit where their scheduled gig was cancelled due to technical difficulties</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Authorities found the bodies of three Michigan rappers at an abandoned Detroit apartment nearly two weeks after they vanished after a cancelled gig in the city. <br>The trio of Armani Kelly, 27, Dante Wicker, 31 and Montoya Givens, 31, were discovered under debris at the vacant Northcourse Apartments in Highland Park on Thursday evening. <br>Police had been looking for rappers Armani Kelly and Dante Wicker and friend Montoya Givens for nearly two weeks, after the three were reported missing. The trio went missing on January 21, after their performance at Lounge 31 was called off due to &#8216;technical problems.&#8217; <br>Last week, police found a car belonging to Kelly in the possession of a 15-year-old who was taken into custody. No signs of a struggle were evident in the car. <br>It is unclear whether the teenager led to the discovery of the missing men.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Northcourse-Apartments-in-Highland-Park-Detroit-M-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-429757" width="841" height="535"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>The three missing entertainers were found dead inside Northcourse Apartments in Highland Park, Detroit [photo], on Thursday around 6pm. The bodies were discovered under debris at the vacant apt building </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>They were discovered under debris at the vacant Northcourse Apartments in Highland Park on Thursday around 6pm. <br>A multi agency team of investigators searching the building, finally discovered the bodies in the basement, beneath old construction equipment. The victims had been shot.<br>Michigan State Police 1st Lt. Mike Shaw confirmed three bodies were found under mounds of debris inside the apartment complex, and at 6 p.m., he said the bodies hadn&#8217;t yet been removed from the building. <br>&#8220;It&#8217;s supposed to be abandoned, but there are a lot of squatters in there,&#8221; said Shaw of the large complex near the corner of Log Cabin and McNichols.<br>Michigan State Police Lieutenant Mike Shaw told the news outlet that the apartment where the bodies were found is not operating. <br>&#8216;It&#8217;s supposed to be abandoned, but there are a lot of squatters in there,&#8217; said Shaw, who did not confirm the identities of the remains said.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Montoya-Givens-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-429751" width="663" height="692"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Rapper Montoya Givens, [photo], reportedly met Kelly and Dante Wicker while the trio served time in prison. Kelly picked up Wicker and Givens on the way to the gig before it was canceled. The three men had been missing since.</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Armani Kelly, who performed under the alias Marley Whoop, had been slated to perform at a Jan. 21 birthday party at Lounge 31 near Gratiot, but the show was canceled. <br>Rapper Dante Wicker, 31, was also scheduled to perform at the Lounge 31 party under the stage name &#8220;B12,&#8221; police said.<br>Kelly&#8217;s mother, Lorrie Kemp, previously said she fears her son has been killed by former inmates following his release for an armed robbery charge last year. <br>Kemp and Kelly&#8217;s fiancé Taylor Perrin first reported him missing two days after his disappearance, but it took police a week to realize Wicker and Givens had also vanished in what investigators have called an &#8216;extraordinary&#8217; case.<br>Kelly had previously spent eight years in prison for armed robbery, which is where he met the other two missing men, according to his fiancé. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Armani-Kelly-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-429759" width="824" height="902"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Armani Kelly, aka &#8216;Marley Whoop,&#8217; had previously spent eight years in prison for armed robbery, which is where he met the other two missing men. His mom fears he may have been targeted by those he encountered behind bars</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Lorrie-Kemp-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-429761" width="840" height="542"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Armani Kelly&#8217;s mother Lorrie Kemp knew her son was dead before his body was discovered on Thursday </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>After their mysterious disappearance, his mother has said she fears the rapper may have been targeted by those he encountered behind bars.<br>&#8216;I&#8217;m angry because you did eight years in prison and you didn&#8217;t die, and now you come out and they kill you,&#8217; Kemp said.<br>&#8216;He&#8217;s dead &#8211; I don&#8217;t care. I love that people are optimistic, and I love that they think there&#8217;s hope, but I know in my gut.&#8217;<br>The trio were driving to Detroit together but it remains unclear if they ever made it to the club. <br>Kelly, who goes by the stage name Marley Whoop, was set to perform just his second ever show when he was told the gig was called off at the last minute. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/image-4.png" alt="" class="wp-image-429763" width="844" height="552"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>The men haven&#8217;t been seen since a performance at Detroit club Lounge 31 was cancelled at the last minute on January 21 due to technical problems</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>It is understood that the 28-year-old last left his mother a voicemail at around 5pm telling her he had arrived in Detroit for the show, before later texting his fiancé Perrin, that the gig had been cancelled. <br>Perrin said she became increasingly worried when her messages to him stopped delivering at around 7.30pm, and police said the phones belonging to Kelly and the two men he was with have not recorded any activity since that evening. <br>&#8216;We always had contact,&#8217; Perrin told <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/01/31/three-rappers-headed-to-detroit-club-havent-been-seen-since/69856942007/" target="_blank">Detroit News</a>.<br>&#8216;We didn’t go hours without talking or at least sending a text to let the other know we’re OK. So, my mind is racing. I couldn’t sleep all night.<br>&#8216;I just don’t understand how this happened and how there’s three grown men missing, and nobody seems to know anything.&#8217;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Armani-Kelly-and-Taylor-Perrin-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-429747" width="839" height="903"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>Taylor Perrin, [right], said she became concerned about her fiancé Armani Kelly, [left], after he stopped responding to her messages on the night of his disappearance on January 21. She tracked his vehicle using vehicle security service OnStar</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>That night, he told his fiancée Taylor Perrin the gig had been canceled over an equipment issue, so he planned to link up with others and possibly find open mic events. But texts, calls and Facebook messages went unanswered sometime after 7:30 p.m., according to Kelly&#8217;s fiancée, Taylor Perrin.<br>Kelly picked up Wicker and Givens on the way to the gig before it was canceled. The three men had been missing since.<br>Perrin started a frantic search after Kelly stopped responding to her, including tracking his vehicle using vehicle security service OnStar.<br>After locating his car online, she saw that it had been driven to the city of Warren around 15 miles from Detroit, where it was suspiciously moved three times in the days following his disappearance. <br>The car was first tracked to a church two days after the cancelled performance, before it was then moved to an apartment complex the next day. <br>Kelly&#8217;s 2017 Chevrolet Equinox was eventually found in a different apartment parking lot by police four days after, without a trace of the three men. The car was discovered covered with mud and without a license plate. <br>Warren police last week arrested a 15-year-old boy driving the Equinox without a license plate. The teen told police that a man had told him to pick up the car on Schoolcraft on Detroit&#8217;s west side.<br>The man had an outstanding warrant involving fraud. Police searched his house Monday, and took him into custody for questioning.</p>

Three missing Michigan rappers found shot dead in vacant Detroit apartment building after they disappeared 11 days ago, following a cancelled gig at city night club – Man with criminal past held for questioning
