The bodies of three Michigan men who disappeared on Jan. 21 after a canceled rap show in Detroit were found on Thursday at an abandoned apartment building in nearby Highland Park, Mich., the state police said on Friday.
The men, Armani Kelly, Dante Wicker and Montoya Givens, were all supposed to attend a rap event at Lounge 31 in Detroit. But it was canceled, and no one had heard from the three after that.
In a statement on Twitter on Friday afternoon, the state police described their deaths as homicides but said the cause and motive were unknown. It was not immediately clear if any arrests had been made in the case.
The bodies were discovered on Thursday by the Detroit Police Department in an abandoned complex in Highland Park, a neighborhood just north of downtown Detroit. The three men could not initially be identified because of the cold weather and “the conditions of the victims,” said Lt. Michael Shaw, a public information officer for the state police, adding that their identities were “unable to be determined just by sight alone.”
In an interview on Tuesday, Taylor Perrin, Mr. Kelly’s fiancée, said she last spoke to Mr. Kelly on Jan. 21, after the rap show was canceled. Mr. Kelly was scheduled to perform and told her he would look for a different venue in the area. Mr. Kelly, who performs as Marley Whoop, and Mr. Wicker, who performs as B12, were both supposed to perform that night and brought Mr. Givens with them, according to The Detroit Free Press.
She knew something was wrong when she didn’t hear from him after that, Ms. Perrin said.
Mr. Kelly, 27, was reported missing by his mother the day after the event. Mr. Wicker and Mr. Givens, both 31, were reported missing on Jan. 27. None of their phones showed any activity since the night of the canceled show, the authorities said.
James E. White, the Detroit police chief, said at a news conference this week that three people missing under the same circumstances is unusual. Missing persons and homicide units of three different police departments were investigating the case.
On Jan. 21, the day of the scheduled performance, Mr. Kelly drove his mother’s car about three hours from Oscoda, Mich., to Detroit. That car was found two days later at an apartment complex in Warren, Mich., north of Detroit, with no signs of any of the three men.
Mr. Kelly, Mr. Wicker and Mr. Givens met while they were in prison, Ms. Perrin said. Released in 2022 after serving eight years for armed robbery, Mr. Kelly was in trade school, interested in pursuing music and planning a wedding, she said in an interview on Tuesday.
“He was great, outgoing, funny, always laughing, joking around,” Ms. Perrin said, “turning the darkest days the brightest.”
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