Vallejo rapper Andre Mac Dre Hicks slaying last year in Kansas City has been linked to the killings of three other people, in Las Vegas and the Bay Area, and two San Francisco men have been indicted in two of the killings. The Toyota Tercel, investigators now say, had been given to Dow's girlfriend by a Berkeley activist, a woman who once was her teacher. The father told police that he rescued his daughter once, in the month before the killing, but that she voluntarily returned to Las Vegas. 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. 2004 JT The Bigga Figga, Mac Mall & Ray Luv - Black Wall Street Compilation (V2) After the show, Dre, Keak Da Sneak, The Jacka, Messy Marv, Yukmouth, and other artists attended an after-party. Savino Davila was at the Atlantic Star earlier in the night, before he left to take his kids trick or treating. There was fourteen of us, remembers Romper Room member and Dre collaborator Coolio Daundadogg. 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. The San Francisco Standard. 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. He shot Winston to death and was arrested with George as the two men struggled over a gun. The 21-year-old prostitute - a possible witness to the killings of Watkins and Akins was shot and killed Nov. 4 in Fairfield. Little youngsters between the age of fourteen and twenty-one. [2] of SF politics and culture. Please take a second to donate on Patreon! Dre made numerous references to The Romper Room, and in one song he rapped about a harrowing credit union robbery. He died alone in Kansas City, thousands of miles away from his home in Sacramento; thousands of miles from the streets of Vallejo and San Francisco, where thousands of people still cling to his every word. He served nine months in jail before the charges were dismissed, with prosecutors complaining that the witnesses refused to cooperate. The limo was gone, but the white van driven by Harold Piersey was there, following behind. And things quickly began to unravel when Mac Dre arrived. Dre was just straight music. 2. [16] At the time of his conviction, Hicks owned the record label Romp Productions. Dre would get caught in this culture of violence in the early morning hours of Nov.1st, 2004. On May 23, in the early morning hours, Minister, Fat Tone and Cowboy left the MGM, where Tone and Cowboy had been staying. He doesnt recall hearing from Whitmill again. [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. Mac Dre is one of the Bay Areas most beloved hip-hop figures of all time. Vallejo rapper Andre Mac Dre Hicks slaying last year in Kansas City has been linked to the killings of three other people, in Las Vegas and the Bay Area, and two San Francisco men have been. Davila told Babcock that he remembered seeing a black Infiniti pass his car, before witnessing Antwine hanging an automatic rifle out of the passenger side window, shooting recklessly into the drivers side of his white van. Antwine is no stranger to the legal system himself. 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. But I dont think he did it.. The next morning, according to reports, Dre stayed at the motel while Diggs and Curt went back to the bank. On the first day, according to surveillance notes, the group cased a Bank of America in downtown Fresno by driving around the block in circles. It was an era marked by Mac Dres prolific post-prison recordings, where he created a dense body of work in such a short period of time that I once referred to him as the West Coast Max B. However, rumors persisted that Fat Tone actually released a song admitting to the crime although its never been found. After witnessing the shooting, Davila said he turned off his phone, took the nearest exit, went home and went to sleep. 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. 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. 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. 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. The violent story, pieced together through interviews and court records, reflects the blurry line between rumor and reality in the world of underground rap. On Friday, October 29, 2004, Dre and several other Bay Area rappers performed a show in Kansas City, Kansas. That was always the big payoff moment for me as a detective, he says. Svoje voby mete kedykovek zmeni v rmci ovldacch prvkov ochrany osobnch dajov. Detective Babcock spoke with the promoter, Damon Whitmill, two times in the weeks after Mac Dres murder. There, he founded his independent label Thizz Entertainment, which is currently managed by his mother Wanda Salvatto. Mac Dre was an artist ahead of his time. Laursen's father has told police that his daughter was forced into prostitution by Mathis, who "would escort her into various Las Vegas hotels hiding an AK-47 under his clothing," according to Mathis' arrest warrant. I would have had a house right now. The two San Francisco men were indicted on murder charges early this month. His San Francisco attorney, Eric Safire, says his client isn't capable of murder but admits that Dow is capable of basking in the negative publicity. Piersey was also a fan of the Bay Area hip-hop scene and was willing to accompany Mac Dre whenever he needed a ride. Macnificent 15. 1 / 10. But instead of introducing the men to the rap superstar, he and an accomplice allegedly took them to a deserted cul-de-sac and riddled them with bullets from an AK-47. Dow was with his 28-year-old girlfriend. If you trace the trail of police reports, you arrive at this summary of the facts: on the night Mac Dre was murdered, he was supposed to do a club appearance. The KCPD then, for some reason, locked both men in the same holding cell. He had recently moved to Sacramento and owned a record label. When he [Mac Dre] came to The Crest for the first time, he just got addicted. Responding officers found shell casings for two separate weapons, multiple 7.62X39 Wolf shell casings, as well as two .45 Caliber spent shell casings. 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. 60. r/CaliBanging. The junior Antwine was born in 1981, only two years before his father murdered the Jones Brothers. They were living in and out of hotels, offering Laurens services as Alana on Craigslist. Though the details are unclear, likely because of hip-hops no snitching policy, its alleged that while at this party, a small argument broke out between Dre and the shows promoter over money. Bell told detectives hes not sure what to believe, considering that everyone said that they had something to do with the murder at some point. However, the streets had their own opinion. [22] He was given a public open-casket viewing, and then buried at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. He left prison with a new lease on life, founded an . Along with dozens of bullet holes, police also found that the drivers side of the van had been rammed by the other vehicle during the shooting. The van swerved across a grass median and four freeway lanes, then crashed into a ditch. The witness didnt see the driver. From an early age, Mac Dre gravitated towards a section of Vallejo called the Country Club Crest, an out-of-the-way neighborhood long known to outsiders as a hotbed of drug crime and violence. "[11] As gangster rap music consistently grew in popularity, law enforcement officials began examining the lyrics of local rappers to utilize as evidence in criminal matters. This is an excerpt from a court opinion published in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit describing what happened next: Five or ten minutes later, an officer heard some yelling and looked into the holding cell to find George lying face down on the floor, bleeding from the nose and mouth, and Antwine sitting on a bench a few feet away. A day later, a white 2000 Pontiac Sunfire convertible was found burning in Vallejo. The new evidence is the latest chapter in a protracted legal saga involving numerous attempts by Dow to fight his conviction. He had long been the subject of rap world rumors. bitea dose of arts, culture and more. Damon Whitmill could not be reached for comment. 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. Davila wanted to leave out that last part for fear of incriminating himself, according to the informant. Detective Babcock interviewed numerous witnesses from that night including members of Whitmills family and many reported seeing a similar series of events: Mac Dre showed up late around 11:30 p.m. and the show eventually shut down due to people crowding the stage. Dow knew Snoop Dogg and appeared on his albums. When Mac Dre reached out in early October, Davila offered to have his cousin, and good friend, Harold Piersey drive Mac Dres crew around on Halloween weekend. Meanwhile, another car -- a white Pontiac Sunfire -- was spotted speeding away from the scene. Dre began rapping as a teen in 1984, some say under the name MC Dre, before changing it to Mac Dre in 1985 to represent the player and pimp flavor of his neighborhood, rather than the east coast style of MC. According to fellow Crest-Sider and Dre associate Mac Mall, it all started with Michael Robinson. Michael The Mac Robinson, a rapper with a pimp persona, who both Mac Dre and Mac Malls names pay honor to, was one of the Crests first musical successes who provided the mold for the younger kids in the neighborhood before he was ultimately shot and killed in 1991. But a local news crew had caught wind of the robbery over the police scanner and had prematurely gone to the bank. This is unlikely and detectives know it. Taylor was interviewed by Detective Babcock nearly a year later at the Wyandotte County Jail, where he was being held on theft and robbery charges and outstanding warrants. He stayed for only 30 minutes, according to Whitmill, before abruptly leaving without performing. The majority of people who knew Dre and the crew say the same thing. 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. The timing of it is uncanny.. I just couldnt be responsible for putting another man behind bars. While Mac Dre merely rapped about the lavish life of a major cocaine dealer Davila actually lived it. 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. The next day, though unbeknownst to Las Vegas police at the time, police in Vallejo, California responded to a report of a burning car. 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. 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. The record signing and radio appearance were both meant to promote the October 29 concert at the National Guard Armory. Mac Dres birthday July 5 has been dubbed Dre Day by his family, friends, and fans. [5], Andre Louis Hicks was born in Oakland, California on July 5, 1970, to Allen Hicks and Wanda Salvatto. Fat Tone had a reputation, says Kansas City activist Alonzo Washington. 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