He was once charged with the murder of 17-year-old Shameka Posey and her unborn child, but he was released 9 months later after charges were dropped due to uncooperating witnesses. The Mandalorian is backand more importantly, so are Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) and Pedro Pascal. Nobody touched the Bay Area like Mac Dre touched the Bay Area, and I dont think nobody will. His mom didnt want him out there, but he didnt want to go home, Sleep Dank says. I met with Drake in San Francisco we sat down and he talked with me about how Mac Dre impacted his life and his career, what hes doing and the big impact that Mac Dre had when Drake was a young boy, Wanda Mac, Mac Dres mother, says during an interview with allhiphop. According to his story, Whitmill then sent Calvert Papoose Antwine II and Taron T-Baby Smith to kill Mac Dre, which they allegedly did with two separate guns and driving the black Infiniti. The tipster had tried to reach Kansas City police, but couldnt get through. The witness, Antione Mouton, came forward after Dow reached out to a prosecutor in Boudins office for help. Life So Far 17. 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. Meanwhile, another car a white Pontiac Sunbird had been seen speeding from the scene. For whatever reason, Mac Dre decided to stay in Kansas City that weekend and agreed to perform at a VIP Halloween party at the former Atlantic Star on 95th and Hillcrest on Sunday night. Crestside 12. Mac Dre & Ray Luv) 7. Dre was reportedly offered a deal to snitch, but he refused, telling the prosecutors to go fuck themselves. Young shared that as a result of this she is forced to live in her car . Gary Edwin, who performs under the name DJ Fresh, was working as the sound man and DJ for the show that night. While Detective Babcock attempted to locate the driver, or drivers, of the black Infiniti, whispers of a Halloween weekend altercation between Mac Dre and Kansas City rapper, Anthony Fat Tone Watkins, began to pick up steam in the local rumor mill. This stuck out to Detective Babcock since the vehicle ramming hadnt been information released to the public. Yet another informant, Nicolas Bell, also incarcerated at CCA Leavenworth, told detectives a similar story on March 13, 2006. He used Mac Dres name to get a little more street cred for his career. Its unclear if that ever happened. The Supreme Court refused to reinstate the death penalty. Seventeen people have been killed so far this year compared with 16 at this time last year, Deputy Police Chief Drennon Lindsey said. Thats why his statement went no further than the investigative reports of Detective Babcock. Both Yukmouth and Keak Da Sneak left Kansas City the next day without being paid the full amount they were promised for performing. The white van allegedly belonged to Savino Davila, a 27-year-old man who prosecutors say was at the head of a drug trafficking organization that brought more than 330 pounds of cocaine into Kansas between 2000 and 2006. Police said there had been 29 robberies in under eight months. [10] Vallejo police began focusing on the Crest Neighborhood as a source of the crime. When guys are incarcerated, they try to come up with these schemes and these stories to try and help themselves. He said he knows how it sounds, but thats what happened. If Dre was alive Id be in a big ass house right now.. He had been performing in the city, and he and other Bay Area rappers enjoyed second-home popularity there. She had information that could be very damaging, says Hendrix. The witness admitted that he made up statements about having an incriminating conversation with Dow that prosecutors used to bolster their case. For the Bay Area artists, Kansas City became like a second home, a tour stop that guaranteed sold out shows and fan adoration. This was a pure fabrication.. He said that Davila had approached him for help writing a letter to detectives. While the tips regarding Fat Tones culpability continued to flood in, Detective Babcock was convinced that he had nothing to do with it and started spending his time on more credible theories. Servin' Game 10. 60. r/CaliBanging. But a local news crew had caught wind of the robbery over the police scanner and had prematurely gone to the bank. It took several years for Wanda Mac to deal with her son's passing and his status as a rising rapper who became more famous upon his death. "She had information that could be very damaging," Hendrix said. But why make up that lie at all? This racial disparity is evident when watching A&Es The First 48, a reality television show that follows various homicide detectives in the first two days after a murder. The informant told Detective Babcock that Davila called Piersey, the driver of his van that was transporting Mac Dre, to find out their location for Whitmill, who then sent the shooters to attack the van, resulting in Mac Dres death. [citation needed], Mac Dre moved to the Arden-Arcade area of Sacramento in 1998 in attempt to distance himself from Vallejo law enforcement. But to some it meant much more. Bombshell claims that Dr Dre's daughter is homeless and living in her car has put his troubled family life into sharp focus. They also learned that the blue Tercel Tone was found in had been given to Ministers 28-year-old girlfriend by a Berkeley activist, and they found footage of Laursen buying ammo in a gun shop for the gun Corleone was known to carry on May 14 about a week prior to the murders. "For a while up, for I'd say up to about. This is not a mere recanting of testimony, Robert DeMarco, an attorney for Dow, wrote in a court filing from late April. Mac Dre was still lying in the mud, covered only with a tarp, when KCPD Detective Everett Babcock arrived at the scene the next morning. This was several years before he would appear on Americas Most Wanted, American Gangster and a show on the Investigation Discovery channel about women who may have killed their husbands. 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. 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." 2004 JT The Bigga Figga, Mac Mall & Ray Luv - Black Wall Street Compilation (V2) The character arc of Fat Tone could be viewed as a prime example of what happens when keeping it real, goes wrong. "He said, 'I'm watching myself.' Whitmill bet his own money on the success of this concert and worked to lower costs by hiring members of his own family to collect tickets and provide security. Cancers. Mohave 13. Gray said Mouton was a federal informant who faced up to 40 years in prison at the time of his testimony in a trafficking case involving a minor. 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. I tell you, at the time, I would have put my hand on the Bible and been like, Nah, Dre had nothing to do with that. He was just somebody who was down with the neighborhood, and that neighborhood was getting profiled, and hes standing up for it. When paramedics arrived, however, Dre was dead, reportedly from a gunshot wound to the neck. Spooked by the cameras, Diggs and Curt smashed back to the motel, picked up Dre, and headed back to the Bay. [13] 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.. I just couldnt be responsible for putting another man behind bars. In the recent years Ive been more accepting of monetizing the legend, the name and Ive formed Andre Lewis Enterprise Company. He was the one everyone knew about over there.. I feel bad because I know Dres family would have wanted to get justice for him, Davila says in January 2021. Fat Tone did little to quell the rumors of his menace. He remembers first meeting Mac Dre in 1986. Fat Tone was a large figure, literally and figuratively. The registered owner: Lee Danae Laursen. Whitmill called off the limousine service and called Davila to see where Mac Dre was. The first time Taylor laid eyes on the stolen black Infiniti was in July of 2004 several months before the murder according to his interview with Detective Babcock. About the Author: Mike Enemigo is Americas #1 incarcerated author, with over 25 books published and many more on the way. LaTanya Young . Yukmouth would later tell VladTV that they did get paid, and he also minimized the issue. But when it came to Hicks' death, he said, the rumor had legs. People were interviewed at the scene, including a pair of women who came upon the accident, before heading to a nearby gas station to call it in. 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.. His name always came up," Babcock said. By 1992, Mac Dre had recorded a number of EPs and began his first independent label, Romper Room Records. He was on his way. Once Dre finished the Halloween-night walk-through, he and Thizz artist Major Dubee Norton (there may have been others) got into a white van and left the club; Dubee drove and Dre rode shotgun. Vallejo rapper Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks wasn't on MTV, on magazine covers or in movies. There was also mud all along the bottom of the vehicle. In 1992, after a surge of local business and bank robberies began taking place by a crew referring to themselves as The Romper Room Gang, knowing Dres affiliation with the crew, police began dissecting his lyrics, hoping to find clues to the robberies. By May of 2005, just five months after Mac Dres murder, San Francisco promoter Andre Mac Minister Dow and Jason Corleone Mathis, a pimp, were trappin in Vegas. Fat Tone and his lawyer met up with Detective Babcock on November 16 and denied any involvement in the murder, while acknowledging that hes heard the rumors about his alleged involvement. Davila took his kids trick-or-treating and Mac Dre went to a local IHop for food. Dre kept a smile on his face, but the minute that smile was gone, you know he would be in your ear. The crime scene spanned several hundred feet and it appeared to Detective Babcock to be a targeted hit. One song was sent to representatives of fellow Bay Area rapper Too Short for an upcoming compilation, Nationwide: Independence Day, but was not selected. A white 2000 Pontiac. A meeting three years ago led to the what would become Legend OfThe Bay, an hour-long documentary about the life of late Rap star Mac Dre that is now available. He was once arrested in the killing of a pregnant woman, although the charges were dropped. His mother, Wanda Salvatto, said she'd heard about her son's death at least three times before. 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. Mac Dre Is A Member Of . On May 23, in the early morning hours, Minister, Fat Tone and Cowboy left the MGM, where Tone and Cowboy had been staying. According to KCPD, witnesses said they heard gunshots before seeing a silver Dodge charger leaving the scene. Taylor wasnt surprised to be speaking with detectives, having seen the black Infiniti on the news during reports of Mac Dres murder. For a long time I was not proud of it, but I am now and I think that conversation started with Drake, and with other up-and-coming entertainers like the Jabbawockeez. Macnificent 15. I think Dre for five years was very hungry and had a lot to think about. Ghetto Stardom 11. The front desk clerk would later report seeing four males and three females leave the hotel sometime after 3:30 a.m. Nearly an hour passed before police arrived at the accident. Mac Dre then said that he didnt feel safe and was about to leave. 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. Whitmill hoped that Mac Dre would actually perform instead of just appear, in order to make up losses accrued over the weekend. In the years after Mac Dres murder, Detective Babcock began to hear rumors that Damon Whitmill, the promoter who paid to fly Mac Dre to Kansas City, might have also paid to have him murdered. He knew he was onto something so he stopped doing anything dirty. I would have had a house right now. The case was highlighted in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries from March 4, 1992, where police said they believed the men belonged to a local gang called The Romper Room Crew. Hes been accused of many other shootings and robberies, though none of them have ever been proven. The right side of the victims neck was up against a small tree.. Almost 10 years later, Antwine was murdered in an incident eerily similar to Mac Dres death. That was always the big payoff moment for me as a detective, he says. While Mac Dre made his way through the city with Piersey, performing and appearing at different scheduled events, it was Whitmill who was responsible for making sure he got paid and that everything went according to plan. O tom, ako pouvame vae informcie, sa dozviete viac v naich zsadch ochrany osobnch dajov a zsadch pouvania sborov cookie. [12], On March 26, 1992, at age 21, Hicks was invited by friends to a road trip to Fresno. The relationship between the two scenes is also a testament to Mac Dres allure. The year Mac Dre was killed here was one of our bloodiest. 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. Charlotte, her sisters Elizabeth, Emily, and Maria were then enrolled by their father whos was a clegyman at the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge, near Kirkby Lonsdale in nerby Lancashire. His father was murdered when he was just a kid. Kansas City police Detective Everett Babcock, who cleared Watkins in Hicks' death, feared that rumors following the shooting might turn deadly. [9] Hicks was released a year early from prison for good behavior on August 2, 1996, after serving four years. Detectives noted in the investigative report that the computer entry for the stolen Infiniti showed the car as being silver, instead of black. [5], Andre Louis Hicks was born in Oakland, California on July 5, 1970, to Allen Hicks and Wanda Salvatto. [9], The city of Vallejo began experiencing a surge in bank robberies in the early 90s. SFs most important stories, delivered straight to your inbox, Wanda Salvatto, mother of legendary rapper Mac Dre who was killed in 2004, holds a framed photograph of her son when he was in his late teens at her home in Vallejo, California on April 25, 2012. Gray grew up in the neighborhood and said he didnt know Mouton. Dow, 35, and Mathis, 26, were indicted Nov. 2 on two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of Watkins and Akins. Davila is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence in Texas at FCI Seagoville, for being at the helm of a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought more than 330 pounds of cocaine into Kansas City between 2000 and 2006. Bay Area rapper Mac Dre began his career at 18 and quickly became an influential force in early west coast hip-hop. Its not a mystery if you look at the case file.. The prosecutor also said that the death would be painless, which defense for Antwine argued was untrue and manipulative to the jury. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. For two days, more than 35 officers and FBI agents followed the group as they picked up girls, shopped for shoes, and even bought deodorant from Walmart. All rights reserved. [20] Local rapper Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins was alleged to have been responsible for the murder, but no evidence ever surfaced, and Watkins himself was shot dead the following year.[21]. The prosecutor, Lateef Gray, said he had a legal obligation to look into the matter and learned late last year that Mouton was actually in jail at the time of the incriminating conversation. Mac Dre would have been larger than Snoop, Sleep Dank says. 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. She wouldnt stand for it, Hendrix said. 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. 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. 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. 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. Star Wars fans, rejoice! He was the center of his community; a guiding light that acted as a beacon for those closest to him. 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 . Mouton testified under an alias, according to Gray. He pled guilty in 2008. 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. 190 beefs with every Damu & Stevenson Village Crip. Soon, Mathis' Saturn sedan, which Laursen had been driving, turned up burning in Richmond, said Fairfield police Lt. Tony Shipp. In 2011, Mac Dre received an influx of new fans after Drake gave him a shout out in his hit single, Motto featuring Lil Wayne. It took severalyears for Wanda Mac to deal with her sons passing and his status as a rising rapper who became more famous upon his death. He is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in a Nevada prison. Savino Davila was at the Atlantic Star earlier in the night, before he left to take his kids trick or treating. On July 25, 2005, Detective Babcock interviewed Kalise White, a woman who had just been jailed on drug charges. Theyd been spotted by KCPD in a stolen van near 59th Street and Blue Hills Road, and had attempted to evade police by jumping out and hiding in a nearby backyard. After he was shot and wounded in 2003, when he was 22, his next album cover showed him sitting up in a hospital gurney flashing a middle finger. The show, and other shows like it, have been criticized for showing detectives that are predominantly white and victims that are predominantly Black. It was being driven by a friend of his named Rick Hill. The news station contacted Kansas City police and the car was located by 6 p.m., about 15 hours after the shooting took place, and it, too, was totaled. During the police interview, Thibeaux also says that Whitmill made a concerted effort to spread rumors that Kansas City rapper Fat Tone had been responsible for the killing, even though Whitmill knew he was innocent. Born in Oakland, CA #34. He also noticed that the Infiniti now had tinted windows. Dre made numerous references to The Romper Room, and in one song he rapped about a harrowing credit union robbery. Fat Tones reputation as a gangster was notorious. "The timing of it is uncanny.". Although he denies it, two jailhouse snitches claim he asked them to vouch for a version of events that doesnt include his phone calls with Whitmill. Davila wanted to leave out that last part for fear of incriminating himself, according to the informant. They then moved to the Vallejo area. They sent me to the pen for five years for a crime that was never committed/ I aint no bank robber but that five years had me thinking maybe I should have did it, said Mac Dre on his 1998 song Lifes a Bitch.. But Whitmill was a first-time promoter, and likely might not have known the amount of organization it takes to plan an event of this magnitude. He was a member of the infamous 51st Street Crips, even allegedly earning a leadership position after a turf battle with a gang member and convicted killer Rashawn Long, a former 51st Street boss. He said that the promoter, Damon Whitmill, who Patterson referred to as Damon or Big D, became mad at Mac Dre after he refused to perform, instead showing up late only to do a 30 minute walk through before leaving. Piersey swerved off the highway and into the oncoming lanes, before crashing into a ditch, where Mac Dres body was thrown from the car. Born Andre Hicks on July 5, 1970, in Oakland, California, he was raised in Vallejo, California in the Country Club Crest neighborhood, often called The Crest, or Crest Side by its residents. We were friends, Davila says when I spoke to him in January. The KCPD have never arrested or charged anybody with the murder and the high profile nature of the killing has continued to generate rumors and theories among hip-hop fans and true crime aficionados. Taylor said he asked the driver for a ride to 56th and Highland and the driver agreed. Dre paroled on August 2, 1996, eager to get back into the rap game. He was "Fat Tone the Untouchable." He had long been the subject of rap world rumors. The sedan violently rammed the drivers side of the van in between taking shots at it. They called Washington next. 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. Aside from Thibeaux and Taylor, over a dozen witnesses and informants reported seeing Calvert Papoose Antwine II driving the black Infiniti, with multiple witnesses saying that he even paid to tint the windows in the month before the murder. Get away from here. According to DJ, hip-hop historian, and co-founder of the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition Davey D, There was a point when the Vallejo police arrested forty-odd people and they looked at music lyrics around Romper Room or the Compilation album [a Dre-led compilation of Crest-Side rappers] as part of a way to round up folks.. When speaking with detectives in the weeks after the murder, DJ Fresh, who was the soundman and DJ that night, remembered Fat Tone briefly hopping on stage after being invited up by Mac Dre. [16] At the time of his conviction, Hicks owned the record label Romp Productions. He'd been shot about 20 times and was slumped over the front seats of a blue 1992 Toyota Tercel, according to grand jury testimony. 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. 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. By 2004, Kansas City and The Bay Area shared a mutual affection towards each others burgeoning hip-hop scenes, acting as the conduit to California for fledgling midwest rappers looking to gain access to a portion of the rap community previously unavailable to them. Po kliknut na tlaidlo Spravova nastavenia zskate alie informcie a mete spravova svoje voby. Coldest thang was Diggs started pimping Mac dre daughter when she turned 18. When Mac Dre died everything changed for his family and friends. When he died, a certain momentum was killed with him and he left a void thats still yet to be filled. ovldacch prvkov ochrany osobnch dajov, Informcie o vaom zariaden a internetovom pripojen, naprklad vaa IP adresa, Aktivity prehadvania a vyhadvania poas pouvania webovch strnok a aplikci Yahoo. In January 2021, Davila told me that he wouldnt directly comment on his statement to Detective Babcock. Based on all my investigations, it seemed to suggest that the statement that Davila gave Detective Babcock was only partially true. Mac Dre is one of the Bay Areas most beloved hip-hop figures of all time. His accomplices were convicted of attempted bank robbery and given 10 years. They wanted to know who did this. The van was completely totaled. Since he cleared Tone of Dres murder, shouldnt we? That cant be true, Davila says. Mac Dre Daughter Responds To Jt The Bigga Figga (Old Clip) W.I.G Tv 19.8K subscribers 38K views 11 months ago Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made. Mac Dres birthday July 5 has been dubbed Dre Day by his family, friends, and fans. 1,282 Followers, 1,212 Following, 371 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Annie Steinberg (@macdreismydad) He would often frequent the Country Club Crest neighborhood, known locally as The Crest. "She was completely snowed by Mathis. It was also Whitmill who scheduled the club appearances and shows for the weekend. Prosecutors used lyrics from the Young Black Brotha EP to help establish guilt in his case. The Kansas City rapper, 24, was shot 20 times. While Mac Dre merely rapped about the lavish life of a major cocaine dealer Davila actually lived it. A totaled, white Dodge Legacy van was found on an embankment below Highway 71. But on July 12, Corleone was arrested in San Francisco for allegedly beating Laursen. When he [Mac Dre] came to The Crest for the first time, he just got addicted. Davila seems to feel guilty for the role he played in his friends death and has tried to find ways to tell detectives since getting arrested in 2006. All I know is that I thought they should have been able to go get that gun., Hed found success solving Kansas City cold cases in the past. Mac Dre left only 30 minutes after hed arrived and by the end, Robinson had regretted hosting the event. Davila recanted his previous story and told Detective Babcock that he returned to the Atlantic Star after taking his kids trick or treating. Dre is the king of The Bay.. Police found drugs and multiple firearms, including an AR-15 assault rifle the same type of weapon used in Mac Dres shooting. First Name Mac. While still incarcerated, Mac Dre re-released Young Black Brotha as his debut album in 1993, featuring a number of songs with vocals recorded through a jail phone. But it wasn't long before rumors started to fly about a rap war -- and "Fat Tone" Watkins. It seems such an unceremonious way to go for a larger-than-life personality like Mac Dre. But Dre had that gangster side, too. 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) There were three spent 7.62X39 Wolf shell casings found in the backseat the same kind located at the crime scene. In 2001, at the age of 20, Fat Tone was arrested and charged with the double-homicide of a 19-year-old girl and her unborn child. According to reports, Tone had been shot around twenty times with an AK-47 and he laid slumped over in a blue 1992 Toyota Tercel. Las Vegas police began investigating the murders and learned through Tones mother and girlfriend that he was there to meet Snoop Doggy way of a promise from Mac Minister. She also said hed paid to get the windows tinted and assumed some girl had rented it for him. Be sure to follow Mike and The Cell Block on social media at @mikeenemigo and @thecellblockoffocial. He said that one day after July, the black Infiniti pulled up alongside him as he walked down the street, near 52nd and Paseo, in Kansas City. Its part of the culture.. The new evidence is the latest chapter in a protracted legal saga involving numerous attempts by Dow to fight his conviction. Demian Bulwa oversees the news operation, including metro, politics, business, sports and investigative reporting, and co-hosts the "Fifth & Mission" podcast. Maybe hes part of a larger group of people called The Romper Room Crew, but he aint robbing no banks. 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