Officials may have found the bodies of three Michigan men who went missing two weeks ago in the Detroit area.
Multiple corpses have been found in an abandoned apartment building in Detroit, but family members of the friends say enough was not done by law enforcement to find them sooner.
One mother took to social media alleging multiple agencies purposely did not look for her son and the others because he was a felon, adding police said her son was a “drug dealer” and “gang member” as a reason why they were not going to look for him. Another mother said the police have found the men and were planning funeral arrangements.
Armani “Marley Whoop” Kelly, 27, Montoya Givens, 31, and Dante “B12” Wicker, 31, were supposed to perform at a birthday party at Lounge 31 in Detroit on Jan. 21. The show was canceled. They are not known to have been seen alive since then.
The three men apparently linked up on the day of the canceled club appearance when Kelly drove from some 200 miles south from Oscoda, Michigan, to pick up his friends in the Detroit area to perform at the show.
Kelly was the first of the men to be reported missing, with his mother contacting police about his disappearance on Jan. 23. Family members of the three say after they reported the men missing, it was weeks before law enforcement truly hunkered down to help find them.
Lorrie Kemp, the mother of Kelly, posted on social media a week after the men went missing, saying she believed police were not looking for her son and his friends with any urgency because he had served time in prison. She wrote on Facebook Sunday, “shame on the police, shame on the whole state, and shame on u Detroit. If only 1 police dept. would have listened, maybe we would NOT be here!”
“I was told my son was a felony & a drug dealer & a gang member! Really! He severed (sic) his time,” adding, “He’s NOT a drug dealer nor is he in a gang. Were in Oscoda is he selling drugs…
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