Police are desperately trying to piece together any clues that can lead them to the whereabouts of three Michigan rappers, who have gone missing since their performance in Detroit was cancelled 10 days ago.
“Armani Kelly, Montoya Givens and Dante Wicker have not been seen or heard from since their Jan. 21 gig at a bar was canceled,” Detroit Police Cmdr. Michael McGinnis informed reporters on Monday. “Their disappearance has sparked a multi-agency investigation.”
“The circumstances seem rather extraordinary. Usually when you deal with an adult that’s missing, it’s usually one person. In this case, the fact that the three of them are missing together is very concerning and very alarming for us,” McGinnis said.
So far police collected evidence that shows Kelly left his hometown, Oscoda, Michigan, at 11 a.m. Jan. 21 in a gray Chevrolet Equinox. He contacted his family at 5 p.m. to let them know his performance that night at Lounge 31 had been canceled and that he was going to either see friends or try to find another place to perform.
That was last contact his family had with him. The Lounge 31 gig was canceled because of an equipment issue.
Detroit police confirmed Tuesday that missing persons reports had been filed for them.
“Kelly’s mother, Lorrie Kemp, filed a missing person report the morning after the canceled performance,” police said. “She found his car through the vehicle’s tracking service in Warren, which is 15 miles north of downtown Detroit.”
She then drove from Oscoda, about 200 miles north, to Warren.
“I couldn’t help but believe I would never see my son again,” she said. “I want to lay him to rest and try to move on.”
Kelly’s fiancé, Taylor Perrin said, “When we found the car with the police they acted like it wasn’t a big deal. One of the officers even said to me ‘Oh, he is probably in one of the apartments over there with another girl’. The nerve of that cop made me so angry.”
“Police in Warren recovered the vehicle, and authorities are working to “extract data” from its computer,” McGinnis said Monday. “None of the men’s cellphone records show any activity after early Jan. 22. We are trying to confirm whether the men ever made it to the bar where they were supposed to have performed.”
“We just have a whole lot of unanswered questions that we’re trying to find out, finding answers for, so we can find these victims or these individuals, and we don’t know that they’re victims,” McGinnis added. “We want to find them and get them home to their loved ones.”
