[1] He was an instrumental figure in the emergence of hyphy, a cultural movement in the Bay Area hip hop scene that emerged in the early 2000s. I told him we expected retribution, Babcock says. When he died, a certain momentum was killed with him and he left a void thats still yet to be filled. They wanted to know who did this. In the years after the murder, Detective Babcock spoke several times with Savino Davila, reputed to be one of Kansas Citys largest cocaine dealers at the time, and the owner of the white van that Mac Dre had been riding in at the time of the shooting. This is where Mac Dres death becomes the catalyst for the shooting deaths of three people, with two others being given life in prison, effectively losing their lives as well. He didnt recognize the driver, but assumed it was Papoose, because thats who Hill said hed sold the car too. According to Whitmills interview with Babcock, Mac Dre missed his radio appearance and showed up late to the record store signing at Much Music and More on October 29. I feel bad because I know Dres family would have wanted to get justice for him, Davila says in January 2021. Meanwhile, another car -- a white Pontiac Sunfire -- was spotted speeding away from the scene. Lee Laursen. In 2008, Detective Babcock spoke with a jailhouse informant, David Thibeaux, while he was in federal custody on unrelated charges at the Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse. Mac Minister remained on the run for nearly a year after the indictment, where he would go on to record the Intro for rapper The Games Doctors Advocate album. Police in Cass County had received multiple tips that a small-time criminal named Elijah Taylor had been seen driving the car in the months leading up to the murder. Sleep Dank looked up to Mac Dre. For a while up, for Id say up to about eight years after he passed, his daughter and I kind of like went into seclusion,Wanda Mac says. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. Its unclear if that ever happened. The police subsequently charged him with conspiracy to commit robbery, although no bank robbery was conducted and Hicks was neither with his friends nor near the location of the purported bank. Residents said they heard gunshots and saw a white Mercedes speed away at Ninth and Howard streets. Mac Dre was dead when they got there from a bullet wound in the back of his neck. If Minister and Corleone did kill Fat Tone, wouldnt they, as insiders, know whether or not Tone was responsible for Dres murder? While driving back to Vallejo, the car was surrounded by the FBI, Fresno, and Vallejo police. In fact, serial killer Terry Blair had just been captured a few months prior after terrorizing the Prospect corridor and murdering at least 6 women. Kliknutm na tlaidlo Prija vetko vyjadrte svoj shlas s tm, e spolonos Yahoo a jej partneri bud spracva vae osobn daje a pouva technolgie, ako s sbory cookie, na zobrazovanie personalizovanch reklm a obsahu, meranie reklm a obsahu, prehady publika a vvoj produktov. The victim was lying on his back, with his left leg out straight and his right leg bent at the knee, Detective Babcock wrote in his crime scene report. A cosmic wrong that forever threw the world off balance for those who knew him best. Mr. Stinky said this incident helped lend credence to the numerous rumors that Fat Tone had gotten into a confrontation with Mac Dre that weekend, even though he says it never happened. In March 2014, local news reported that Antwine had been found dead in an upside down SUV riddled with bullets. Anthony Fat Tone Watkins was a large figure, literally and figuratively. In 1992 he was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank robbery when his lyrics were used against him in court. Following Mac Dre's murder in 2004, Wanda Salvatto described how she and his daughter went into seclusion to mourn privately, but his increased popularity and fame made the healing process . The flip side of that was how bad you would feel when you couldnt get a case solved and you would have to tell the victims family that there was nothing new. "We relive the death all over again." . He specializes in writing about prison and street culture. "She wouldn't stand for it," Hendrix said. And his music was good. This was a pure fabrication.. Parts of it are right, parts of it are wrong.. It was being driven by a friend of his named Rick Hill. Its part of the culture.. Kansas City Detective Everett Babcock arrived to the scene of a murder on the morning after Halloween in 2004. They were greeted at the airport by Davila, who picked the group up in his Escalade. Anyone with. But his clever, hardcore rhymes had an underground following, and when he was killed on a Kansas City freeway last November, hip-hop radio stations mourned him at length. The officer checked on George, then stepped away to call for help; when he turned back, he saw Antwine in midair, coming down with both feet on Georges head. At one point, DJ Fresh said he mentioned to Mac Dre that if he told people to get off the stage they might listen to him since they were his fans. Although Mac Minister maintains his innocence, the judge decided to uphold his life sentence in 2010 after Dows lawyers argued that mistakes were made during trial. Still, as his driver moved through Kansas City in the dark a year ago, a stolen black Infiniti G36 pulled alongside and someone opened fire, police said. Las Vegas investigators tracked her down in July, and during an interview in San Francisco, Hendrix said he and another detective begged her to cooperate, even offering assistance to help her regain her life. But why make up that lie at all? The timing of it is uncanny.. He asked him if hed submit a DNA sample to help with the investigation. Diggs goes into some detail about the story on his song Rompaugraphy, and his interviews confirm he and his crew were in Kansas City head-hunting after Dres murder. [5], Andre Louis Hicks was born in Oakland, California on July 5, 1970, to Allen Hicks and Wanda Salvatto. Mac Dre and three friends flew from Sacramento to Kansas City, with a quick layover at LAX, on October 27, 2004. Court documents identified the brothers as drug dealers and Antwine was said to have worked with them. We rely on your support to keep POW alive. He had recently moved to Sacramento and owned a record label. Hes a self-described hip-hop head and his lifestyle in the early 2000s closely mirrored the crime-fueled stories present in the genres most popular music. He was also the founder of both Thizz Entertainment and Romp. But its no wonder why the police didnt find the car. The dead body belonged to Andre Hicks, known to the world as Mac Dre, one of the most influential hip-hop artists in history. He fathered a daughter named Drane. When I was able to tell the families that their loved ones killer had been brought to justice. She also said hed paid to get the windows tinted and assumed some girl had rented it for him. Ive really owned Thizz Entertainment and that business. A white 2000 Pontiac. Bells lawyers had reached out to detectives saying that their client had information regarding two murders, Mac Dres being one of them. 2. I lived that case for I dont know how many years.. [8][bettersourceneeded] Hicks recorded his first three EPs as Mac Dre between 1988 and 1992. Jailhouse snitches are notoriously unreliable. A few feet away, 22-year-old Jermaine Akins -- a friend who was a fugitive from federal cocaine-selling charges -- also lay dead after being shot 13 times. "She was completely snowed by Mathis. One of the questions asked what his most memorable moments as a homicide detective were? Diggs, who was not present on account of federal parole, doesnt put much significance on this disagreement. "The timing of it is uncanny.". The Toyota Tercel, investigators now say, had been given to Dow's girlfriend by a Berkeley activist, a woman who once was her teacher. LaTanya Young . Detective Babcock said the investigation was hampered early by the reluctance of Hicks' travel companions to cooperate. One song was sent to representatives of fellow Bay Area rapper Too Short for an upcoming compilation, Nationwide: Independence Day, but was not selected. Both Yukmouth and Keak Da Sneak left Kansas City the next day without being paid the full amount they were promised for performing. He incorporated his sense of humor into his music, in part by creating characters, such as Ronald Dregan and Thizzelle Washington. He wore a large afro, and big, oversized stunna shades, and he created the Thizz Dance, a funky dance that holds no specific rules. He told Detective Babcock in 2004 that he spoke with Mac Dre while in a limousine in front of the club. Davila wanted to give detectives info about the murder without implicating himself. Dow knew Snoop Dogg and appeared on his albums. The saga began quietly, in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 2004, as Hicks rode in a white van driven by a friend through Kansas City. But Dre had that gangster side, too. "This is the greatest thing that has happened to him," Safire said, referring to the marketing and appeal of violence in gangsta rap. When San Francisco police learned he was a suspect in the Vegas murders, they notified Las Vegas police that they had him in custody. One of those informants was Gary Patterson, who told Detective Babcock that he became friends with Davila while they were housed together in 2007. The record store owner told detectives that fans were getting antsy and it all felt very unorganized. I thought about my life and how I ended up talking to them and realized that it wasnt me and that I wasnt raised that way, Davila told me in a January 2021 interview. He was pretty sure Hill had stolen the car, but he didnt want to pry. However, police pulled them over two hours later on a deserted stretch of road near Los Baos. The city doesnt want the rest of the nation to know how violent things really are here, Washington says. We were friends, Davila says when I spoke to him in January. The Supreme Court refused to reinstate the death penalty. He made the men drop everything and then told them to leave. She'd been shot in the head two days after Dow and Mathis were indicted, authorities said. According to the police reports, Whitmill, who sometimes went by Big D, or Honeybear, spoke to Detective Babcock on numerous occasions, including the day after the murder. Thats why his statement went no further than the investigative reports of Detective Babcock. The first time Antwine was mentioned in the documents was on December 10, 2004, when an unnamed person told police that their cousin stole the black Infiniti and then later sold it to Antwine in June or July, of 2004. He had become Fat Tone the Untouchable. According to Detective Everett Babcock, the lead investigator in the Mac Dre murder, Every shooting that happened [in Kansas City], you would get calls saying, Fat Tone did it, Fat Tone did it. His name always came up. But when it came to Dres murder, the rumor had legs. I think someones got it misconstrued. But I just couldnt do it, thats why the prosecution on my case was so upset with me and ultimately, why they sentenced me to 30 years., Davila continues: Im truly sorry about not being able to provide that sense of peace for his family and that those guys werent held accountable for that senseless crime.. A San Francisco rapper imprisoned for killing two men in retaliation for the slaying of hip-hop legend Mac Dre is seeking his release based on new evidence uncovered by the office of District Attorney Chesa Boudin.. Andre Dowknown as Mac Ministerwas convicted at trial in 2008 on two counts of first-degree murder in the shootings of Kansas City rapper Anthony "Fat Tone . The show at the Armory took place on a Friday. Antwine and a friend asked them if they wanted to go to a rap concert on the night Mac Dre was murdered, according to the anonymous tip. A culture of distrust exists between the Black community in Kansas City and the majority white police force that has been tasked to protect them. He was named to the position in 2020 by Boudin, a progressive prosecutor who lost his seat in a contentious recall election earlier this week. When he [Mac Dre] came to The Crest for the first time, he just got addicted. He said that Davila wanted to have either someone say that they were with him that night and vouch for a different version of events where Davila was following the van and actually saw the murder with his own eyes. Soon, Mathis' Saturn sedan, which Laursen had been driving, turned up burning in Richmond, said Fairfield police Lt. Tony Shipp. He was born in Oakland, California, on July 5, 1970. He then ran upstairs and told Mac Dres friends what happened. Just like Antwine, Kansas City Police never arrested anyone for Smiths murder and theres no proof that its connected to Mac Dres shooting. While Mac Dre merely rapped about the lavish life of a major cocaine dealer Davila actually lived it. So listening to that, it kind of opened up my eyes that maybe I do need to do this. He took the tip to KCPD and the case was solved not long after. [14] The witness admitted that he made up statements about having an incriminating conversation with Dow that prosecutors used to bolster their case. Oddly, the promoter had never been named. He always called me if he was coming through K.C. Mathis "said he shot Watkins, then chased Akins into the street and shot him while he was on the ground pleading for his life," the warrant alleged. The complete story of how, why and who killed one of the greatest rappers of all time is laid out in more than 1,200 never before seen documents requested from the KCPD. Born in Oakland, CA #34. This was perhaps the first time Detective Babcock realized Andre Hicks was more than your average Kansas City murder victim. Calvary Baptist Church. While cleared of wrongdoing by police, prosecutors argued that the rap community believed one of the victims in the double shootingFat Tonewas behind Mac Dres killing. I think Dre for five years was very hungry and had a lot to think about. They had to make a brief stop at The Baymont, a hotel where members of Mac Dres crew were staying, before heading to The Sheraton. Whitmill used his own money to fund the October 29 show at the Armory, shelling out the $6,000 deposit before plane tickets were even bought. All On A Bitch. He wanted me to get into music.. The registered owner: Lee Danae Laursen. He tells Detective Babcock that every time something like this happens, he gets blamed and that he isnt worried because he knows he did nothing wrong. Suspecting the crew, police kept them under surveillance. Dre got jumped into The Crest. Nobody touched the Bay Area like Mac Dre touched the Bay Area, and I dont think nobody will. It was clear they were firing from inside the vehicle by the way the metal from the car door curled outward. Bay Area rapper Mac Dre began his career at 18 and quickly became an influential force in early west coast hip-hop. To my knowledge MD was never married, but he definitely has a daughter; that implies that he was likely close to the daughter's mom at one point in his life, however, I can't find anything about her mom with a quick Google search, and we can't really be sure how close they really were - really not unheard of for famous or rising (in MD's case) "He said, 'I'm watching myself.' Piersey swerved off the highway and into the oncoming lanes, before crashing into a ditch, where Mac Dres body was thrown from the car. He has a lengthy criminal record in Missouri dating back to 1999, when he was first arrested for selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school in Kansas City. On top of that, Mac Dres crew of over 20 people rushed the stage mid-show, creating a security concern, and causing everything to get shut down. And now, as I travel throughout the world, I see people recognize him for the flavor that he brought to hip-hop. When asked if it was frustrating being unable to shut a case after all the work hed done over more than a decade, Detective Babcock said this: I mean, you have the case files, he says. Detective Babcock noted that he didnt believe Antwine was being truthful. Unless Davila wanted the truth to be out without implicating himself. They told me how they emulate Mac Dre with a Mac Dre skit to start their show., Nas Celebrates Career Longevity In Stylish '30' Video, Joey Bada$$ Gets Cozy With Rumored Girlfriend Serayah In 'Show Me' Video, Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg Drop New Song Following Boosie Badazz Smoking Challenge, Photograph courtesy of Mac Dre's Facebook page, For a while up, for Id say up to about eight years after he passed, his daughter and I kind of like went into seclusion, ,Wanda Mac says. On March 26, 1992, with the assistance of a wired informant, VPD and federal authorities followed Dre, along with rappers and Romper Room members Simon Kilo Curt Curtis and Jamal J-Diggs Diggs to Fresno, where Dre had recently performed with rapper Ice Cube. He even rented a limousine to transport Mac Dre to and from the Atlantic Star. Detectives noted in the investigative report that the computer entry for the stolen Infiniti showed the car as being silver, instead of black. The first real tip came the day after the murder, when Detective Babcock was contacted by the local media, who told them that a man had reached out with information about a car. I never discussed anything with anybody at Leavenworth. On May 23, in the early morning hours, Minister, Fat Tone and Cowboy left the MGM, where Tone and Cowboy had been staying. Hed also been to the show at the Armory and remembered Mac Dre briefly inviting him on stage. For the Bay Area artists, Kansas City became like a second home, a tour stop that guaranteed sold out shows and fan adoration. In a police report that Babcock wrote in November 2004, Whitmill allegedly told the detective that Mac Dre agreed to come to Kansas City and perform two live shows for a total of $12,500, with the first $6,000 to be paid immediately as a deposit. Dozens of tips recorded by KCPD feature some variation of Fat Tone and Mac Dre getting into an altercation. Its all tangled up, Mr. Stinky says. Dre was reportedly offered a deal to snitch, but he refused, telling the prosecutors to go fuck themselves. A notorious ecstasy enthusiast, Dre began rapping about the drug and coined the term thizz, a slang word for ecstasy, and he pioneered the hyphy movement. Dow remains on the lam, sought on a no-bail warrant issued after the indictment, and may be featured soon on TV's "America's Most Wanted." He was later convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in 2008 (for the murder of Fat Tone and his friend, Jermain Watkins) and is serving a life sentence in a Nevada State prison. There, Laursen was seen in a gun shop nine days before the killing, where she bought ammunition similar to that used to kill Watkins and Akins, according to grand jury testimony. Witnesses say they saw Fat Tone arguing with Mac Dre over stage time at the National Guard Armory show on October 29. Yet another informant, Nicolas Bell, also incarcerated at CCA Leavenworth, told detectives a similar story on March 13, 2006. We pleaded with her to get out of there so she wouldnt get harmed.. [citation needed], Mac Dre moved to the Arden-Arcade area of Sacramento in 1998 in attempt to distance himself from Vallejo law enforcement. Seventeen people have been killed so far this year compared with 16 at this time last year, Deputy Police Chief Drennon Lindsey said. Lots of circumstantial evidence, but neither Minister nor Corleone were anywhere to be found. But I dont think he did it.. Hes been accused of many other shootings and robberies, though none of them have ever been proven. When he finally got a chance, he was able to do his own thing that he really wanted to. Only, Dre quit rapping about robbing, and instead began rapping about partying; he wanted to make music you could dance to. 1,282 Followers, 1,212 Following, 371 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Annie Steinberg (@macdreismydad) That appeared to be a type error, wrote KCPD Detective Mike Jones in an investigative report dated November 4, 2004. According to Tones mother and girlfriend back home, he hit for several thousand dollars at the table, but he was irritated with Minister who he says kept asking him for cash and jewelry in exchange for the Snoop Dogg introduction. In 2004, he gave a tip to KCPD that helped solve the killing of four-year-old Erica Green, known to the world as Precious Doe.. One of the men convicted of killing Fat Tone was a fledgling rapper and rap promoter named Andre Mac Minister Dow, who recorded the spoken word portion of the intro to The Games sophomore album, Doctors Advocate, while on the run for killing Fat Tone. He was found near Watkins' body. "Mac Dre"s been dead for eight years, but he has a mother left, nieces left, a daughter," she said. The Mandalorian is backand more importantly, so are Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) and Pedro Pascal. They parked the car and took out masks, but as they did, a television news crew whod caught word about the heist on the police scanner arrived. Salvatto, Hicks' mother, said she doesn't know what to make of the killings and finds it hard to believe that they are connected to her son's death -- although she has noticed that "people like to be tied to the drama." Get Right 9. P.O.P. Taylor said he asked the driver for a ride to 56th and Highland and the driver agreed. They called Washington next. His body was found May 23 in an unfinished housing development in Las Vegas. Mac Dre told Davila he was annoyed because the event wasnt organized and because there were other local rappers performing. To be fair, there are pieces of Davilas story that dont quite add up. Some, when approached, even pretended they didn't know Hicks. Some of these cases can be solved.. According to Mathis' arrest warrant, he later admitted to a friend that he had shot Watkins and Akins to avenge Hicks' killing. Davila was convicted in 2008 of being at the head of an organization of more than 30 people who brought in approximately 330 pounds of cocaine between 2000 and 2006. He was the first person to show my neighborhood that we dont have to sell crack anymore. Detectives then showed Taylor three photo line ups. Hicks had performed in that city two weeks prior and decided to go on the trip so that he could re-visit a woman he knew there. Antwines father is infamous in Kansas City as the drug dealer and convicted murderer who narrowly avoided the death sentence in 1995 in a case that went all the way to The Supreme Court. In 1999, in an effort to give himself some distance from the Romper Room Gangs controversy, Dre moved to Sacramento, California, and started Thizz Entertainment in partnership with Walter Zelnick, vice president of City Hall Records. He left prison with a new lease on life, founded an . Donald Morrison read through thousands of pages of documents provided by the Kansas City Police Department to shed light on one of hip-hops biggest mysteries. I did seen Mac Dre on the turn knock out a cat three times his size. "He was proud he was a suspect.". Piersey claimed that he never heard a sound from Mac Dre. Dres crew was determined to find out. "If Andre were here, he'd be shaking his head.". And would they have killed Tone if he wasnt? There, he founded his independent label Thizz Entertainment, which is currently managed by his mother Wanda Salvatto. Life So Far 17. Corleone said he shot Watkins, then chased Atkins into the street and shot him while he was on the ground pleading for his life, the warrant alleged. The hard part for us was we didnt really get a chance to grieve or mourn privately, because once he got killed he became an even bigger public figure.. He knew what happened to Mac Dre and felt partly responsible, but couldnt bring himself to testify in court. They were told that theyd get the rest of the money wired to them later in the week. In an exclusive with The Daily Mail, LaTanya shared that she is homeless as she can't afford an apartment in California. We may never know. The prosecutor also said that the death would be painless, which defense for Antwine argued was untrue and manipulative to the jury. No matter how long youve been a fan, there appears to be an endless supply of deep cuts and mixtape remixes to keep Bay Area rap historians satiated for decades to come. 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