3 Michigan Rappers Reported Missing Before Being Found, Died Of Gunshot Wounds

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Three missing men from Michigan were killed by gunfire last month.

 

According to Michigan State Police First Lt. Michael Shaw, rappers Armani Kelly and Dante Wicker, as well as Montoya Givens, were found shot to death.

 

Kelly, 38, Wicker, 31, and Givens, 31, were discovered on Thursday in an abandoned Highland Park apartment complex. Highland Park is a city enclave surrounded by Detroit.

The Michigan men went missing last month, on the night that their performance at Lounge 31 in Detroit was canceled. They were found almost two weeks later.

“There is no one in custody for the homicides,” Shaw told PEOPLE in an email.

On the Michigan State Police Twitter page, Shaw said on Monday that the detectives were “getting close to determining a motive.”

 

“We have to keep a lot of stuff tight to the vest,” he said in a video posted to the social media network.

Their bodies were found concealed under debris in the building’s basement, according to NBC affiliate WDIV.

“It looks like they were killed upstairs and then dumped in the basement,” Shaw told the outlet.

While Michigan State Police tell PEOPLE no one has been arrested in connection to the homicides, CBS News reported a 15-year-old was arrested after stealing Kelly’s vehicle.

“I can tell you that there was a juvenile that was arrested, not in connection with the missing people, but in connection with a vehicle associated with one of the missing people,” Dawn Fraylick, communications director for the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office, told CBS News.

A Warren police officer who answered the phone when PEOPLE called on Tuesday was unable to confirm the report.

 

At least two other people were detained in connection with the incident, according to WDIV.

 

Taylor Perrin, Kelly’s fiancée, said he stopped responding to communications around 7:30 p.m. According to a previous Fox 2 Detroit report, all three of their phones had stopped sending data by the next morning.

 

Lorrie Kemp, Kelly’s mother, reported him missing on Jan. 23 after using OnStar to help police locate her son’s car in Warren. When Givens and Wicker’s families saw the news report four days later, they realized all three men knew each other.

 

“I just beg for help, for anything. I need answers and, if it comes to it, I need closure, because I will never forget and I will never stop,” Perrin told Fox 2 Detroit, explaining that Kelly was working, going to school and developing his rap career while bouncing back from a robbery arrest.

 

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