Authorities have released the cause of death of three missing Michigan men whose frozen bodies were discovered in an abandoned Highland Park apartment building, in Highland Park, Michigan, a small enclave city wholly surrounded by Detroit. The men were gunned down, police say.
The last time anyone saw rappers Armani “Marley Whoop” Kelly, 27, and Dante “B12” Wicker, 31, and their friend Montoya Givens, 31, was on Saturday, Jan. 21, after their performance at a popular Detroit club, Lounge 31, was canceled.
For nearly two weeks, multiple policing agencies were searching for the men, despite family members saying they were being kept in the dark and believed very little had been done. Now, officials have confirmed the bodies found beneath a pile of debris in the basement of the Highland Park apartment complex were those of the missing men, the Detroit News reports.
On Tuesday, Feb. 7, the Michigan State Police Second District tweeted, “Members of the homicide task force are continuing to make progress on the investigation of the homicide of three men in Highland Park. It has been determined that the cause of death for each of the men was multiple gunshot wounds.”
Adding, “The investigation also has revealed that this was not a random incident. The investigation is continuing and detectives are making progress and we believe we may have determined a motive. Once more information is developed, we will continue to update here.”
The day the men went missing, Kelly drove from some 200 miles south from Oscoda, Michigan, to pick up his friends in the Detroit area to perform at the…
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