An ongoing search for three Michigan aspiring rappers who went missing just before they were scheduled to perform has left the men’s loved ones little answers but a slew of questions.
It has been ten days and counting since Armani Kelly, 27, Dante Wicker, 31, and Montoya Givens, 31, disappeared without a trace.
“I will never stop looking for him,” Lorrie Kemp wrote on her Facebook page.
Kemp is Kelly’s mother, and since he went missing on Jan. 21, she has spent countless hours dedicated to finding her son.
“I don’t want to be on Dateline in 20 years to find his body,” Kemp told WXYZ.
The Detroit News reports police in multiple cities are seeking tips on the rappers’ disappearance.
The day the three friends went missing, Kelly drove from Oscoda, Michigan, nearly 200 miles north of Detroit to pick up his friends Wicker and Givens, who live within the metro Detroit area. They were going to Lounge 31 in Detroit, the venue for their planned performance. Kemp told WWJ her son called her once the group arrived in Detroit.
Kelly’s fiancée, Taylor Perrin, told the Detroit News, “the gig was canceled over an equipment issue.”
Detroit Police Commander Michael McGinnis told WJBK, “a family member of one of the men believes they made it to the club before they disappeared,” although police later clarified the timeline.
“At this point, there’s nothing to suggest they did,” make it to the venue McGinnis said to The Detroit News.
Phone records for Kelly, Wicker and Givens ended around midnight, “late January 21 or early January 22,” WJBK added.
“From there, we just have a whole lot of unanswered questions that we’re trying to find the answer to,” McGinnis said. “The fact that the three of them are missing together is very concerning and very alarming for us,” he continued.
Kemp reported her son missing on Jan. 23 after not hearing from Kelly for 24 hours. Families for Wicker and…
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