Detective Babcock saw four bullet holes near the back seat on the passenger side. 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. The flip side of that was how bad you would feel when you couldnt get a case solved and you would have to tell the victims family that there was nothing new. 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. Mac Dre Fans Also Viewed . Kansas City police Detective Everett Babcock, who cleared Watkins in Hicks' death, feared that rumors following the shooting might turn deadly. When he was three, he moved 30 minutes north to Vallejo, a city of just over 120,000, famous for having the first United States Navy base on the Pacific Coast. But I dont think he did it.. 96. The show at the Armory took place on a Friday. He was named to the position in 2020 by Boudin, a progressive prosecutor who lost his seat in a contentious recall election earlier this week. 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.. bitea dose of arts, culture and more. Dre is the king of The Bay.. Mathis was arrested July 12 in San Francisco, where police said he had beaten his girlfriend. 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. Detectives told Taylor that it seems strange that someone he didnt know would pull up alongside him for no reason and then give him a ride. Mouton testified that he had the conversation with Dow on a footbridge in Las Vegas on Dec. 5, 2005. Detective Everett Babcock is somewhat of a celebrity among his peers at the KCPD for appearing on The First 48 in the mid-2000s. There was white paint all along the passenger side of the car, suggesting that it had been used to ram a white vehicle. Savino Davila was at the Atlantic Star earlier in the night, before he left to take his kids trick or treating. 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. While cleared of wrongdoing by police, prosecutors argued that the rap community believed one of the victims in the double shootingFat Tonewas behind Mac Dres killing. The informant said hed never heard Antwine say it himself but that hed heard his friends, including a man named Taron T-Baby Smith, talking about it. His story completely changed in 2008, after he was arrested for drug conspiracy and looking at 30 years in prison. Police found drugs and multiple firearms, including an AR-15 assault rifle the same type of weapon used in Mac Dres shooting. The victim succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene, police said. Dre got jumped into The Crest. It didnt take long for the streets to start talking, and they were saying a notorious Kansas City gangsta was behind the murder of the Bay boss: Fat Tone. About the Author: Mike Enemigo is Americas #1 incarcerated author, with over 25 books published and many more on the way. LaTanya Young . He knew what happened to Mac Dre and felt partly responsible, but couldnt bring himself to testify in court. With Rob Aston, Jonathan Sway Calloway, Davey D, DJ Quik. Wide Open 14. "I told him we expected retribution," Babcock recalled. There were three spent 7.62X39 Wolf shell casings found in the backseat the same kind located at the crime scene. He stayed for only 30 minutes, according to Whitmill, before abruptly leaving without performing. He said that Davila had approached him for help writing a letter to detectives. In 2016, Drake even brought out Mac Dres mother, Mac Wanda, at a sold-out show he did at the Oakland Arena in 2016 for his Summer Sixteen Tour. He also provided names for the supposed shooters. Still, as his driver moved through Kansas City in the dark a year ago, a stolen black Infiniti G36 pulled alongside and someone opened fire, police said. And would they have killed Tone if he wasnt? That cant be true, Davila says. Slaying victims Watkins and Akins were in Las Vegas for a Snoop Dogg concert at the Palms and were staying at the MGM Grand. Jailhouse snitches are notoriously unreliable. 1 / 10. [15] The trial was later listed among Complex Magazine's 30 Biggest Criminal Trials in Rap History. She wouldnt stand for it, Hendrix said. Born in Oakland, CA #34. According to Las Vegas police Detective Todd Hendrix, Watkins told his mother and girlfriend that Dow had promised him a meeting with Snoop Dogg. 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. Kansas City Detective Everett Babcock arrived to the scene of a murder on the morning after Halloween in 2004. His brash, violent and honest take on midwest hip-hop captured the ears of his Bay Area contemporaries in a way other Kansas City rappers hadnt. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). 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. Photos courtesy of Kansas City Police Department / Patrick Johnson. Servin' Game 10. Detectives then showed Taylor three photo line ups. Patterson told Detective Babcock that Davila was trying to leverage information he knew about the Mac Dre murder to make a deal for leniency in his upcoming drug conspiracy case. According to Mathis' arrest warrant, he later admitted to a friend that he had shot Watkins and Akins to avenge Hicks' killing. In his interview with Babcock, Thibeaux said that he grew up with Whitmill in Kansas City and that hed heard him bragging about sending people to kill Mac Dre over a failed concert arrangement. His image as a violent gangster helped him sell records, which is ironic, considering that music was probably one of the few hustles helping Fat Tone escape a life of crime. 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. For doing so, however, Dres respect and legacy as a real one only grew. I couldnt do it. The next morning, according to reports, Dre stayed at the motel while Diggs and Curt went back to the bank. Hicks, who grew up in Vallejo's hardscrabble Country Club Crest neighborhood, first gained radio airplay as a teenager with a song titled, ironically, "2 Hard 4 the (expletive) Radio." | Susan Tripp Pollard/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images, By clicking Subscribe you confirm you have read and agree to our. Despite the title of the song, it was a hit on local radio. The witness, Antione Mouton, came forward after Dow reached out to a prosecutor in Boudins office for help. The tone felt Minister was pressing him. 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. Detective Babcock spoke with the promoter, Damon Whitmill, two times in the weeks after Mac Dres murder. The saga began quietly, in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 2004, as Hicks rode in a white van driven by a friend through Kansas City. At the time of the killing, San Francisco promoter Andre "Mac Minister" Dow, his friend Jason Mathis and call girl Lee Danae Laursen were in Las Vegas, according to police. 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.. 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. The two San Francisco men were indicted on murder charges early this month. 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. He even set up a radio appearance and a record store meet-and-greet to help ensure the shows success. Seventeen people have been killed so far this year compared with 16 at this time last year, Deputy Police Chief Drennon Lindsey said. 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. Some, when approached, even pretended they didn't know Hicks. he specializes in writing about prison, street crime, and how-o books for prisoners and hustlers. I told him we expected retribution, Babcock says. I could have gone home off of that case, but it just wasnt me.. 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. When he finally got a chance, he was able to do his own thing that he really wanted to. Only, Dre quit rapping about robbing, and instead began rapping about partying; he wanted to make music you could dance to. Mac Minister was a suspect in the murder of a call girl from Utah named Lee Danae Laurson. Fat Tone was West Coast-friendly, DJ Fresh says. Bay Area rapper Mac Dre began his career at 18 and quickly became an influential force in early west coast hip-hop. Meanwhile, another car a white Pontiac Sunbird had been seen speeding from the scene. Robinson was initially excited about the signing until Mac Dre showed up an hour and a half late with an entourage of 22 people. 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. The case centered on an alleged 2005 murder plot that involved Dow luring the victims to Las Vegas under the promise of meeting Snoop Dogg, court records show. While driving back to Vallejo, the car was surrounded by the FBI, Fresno, and Vallejo police. He wanted me to get into music.. Gray grew up in the neighborhood and said he didnt know Mouton. 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. Dows attorney said his client adamantly maintains his innocence., Were going to keep fighting it, DeMarco said, but I am hopeful that he will ultimately be vindicated., Michael Barba can be reached at [emailprotected]. I never discussed anything with anybody at Leavenworth. Dow is now trying to have his convictions overturned, citing new evidence that a witness who testified against him fabricated his testimony. This is unlikely and detectives know it. There was fourteen of us, remembers Romper Room member and Dre collaborator Coolio Daundadogg. The police say that while Mac Dre was getting busy in a local motel with his lady friend, his accomplices were out casing a Fresno bank with plans of a robbery. Dre was just straight music. 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. "[17], After his release from Lompoc Prison,[18] Mac Dre and longtime collaborator Coolio Da' Unda Dogg (Troy Reddick) recorded tracks to pitch to major record labels. 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.. However, numerous witness statements say this never happened and police were never able to confirm it. When he died, a certain momentum was killed with him and he left a void thats still yet to be filled. The victim was lying on his back, with his left leg out straight and his right leg bent at the knee, Detective Babcock wrote in his crime scene report. In the years after the murder, Detective Babcock spoke several times with Savino Davila, reputed to be one of Kansas Citys largest cocaine dealers at the time, and the owner of the white van that Mac Dre had been riding in at the time of the shooting. Mac Dre is one of the Bay Areas most beloved hip-hop figures of all time. Dre became famous for his Thizz Face his version of the Stank Face. It has a double meaning that the music is so nasty, you gotta squint your face, says Davey D. According to Mac Mall, though Dre transformed his music from gangsta to fun, he could turn his gangsta on in a second if needed. 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. Dude was our Tupac, dude was our Biggie Smalls, says Mac Mall. Mac Dre is a rapper and record producer whose real name is Andre Louis Hicks. The victims left arm was slightly across his body and his right arm was out straight, he wrote. In his final interview with Detective Babcock in 2008, Davila implicated Damon Whitmill as having ordered the hit on Mac Dre, with Antwine Papoose Calvert II and Taron T-Baby Smith as the actual shooters. This turned out to be a good thing for Dre, as his audience began growing, and mainstream radio began giving him more airtime. 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. Fat Tone had a reputation, says Kansas City activist Alonzo Washington. This is where Mac Dres death becomes the catalyst for the shooting deaths of three people, with two others being given life in prison, effectively losing their lives as well. Just like Antwine, Kansas City Police never arrested anyone for Smiths murder and theres no proof that its connected to Mac Dres shooting. The vehicle? In an exclusive with The Daily Mail, LaTanya shared that she is homeless as she can't afford an apartment in California. They claim Dre was the ringleader and used his lyrics in court to help support their case. Unless Davila wanted the truth to be out without implicating himself. She was completely snowed by Mathis [Corleone]. Now a resurfaced 2010 interview with Dre's baby mama Lisa Johnson, 53, who raised three girls by the Death Row Records producer single-handedly, reveals the star's two 'secret' daughters LaToya and Ashley Young. In 2013 NPR noted his sound as being "fast and confident" further writing that "he built upon the bouncy bass that had its roots in the funk era. Oddly, the promoter had never been named. After dropping his first three albums, between 1989 and 1991, Dres career began to pick up the pace. [13] In a February 2021 interview, the Kansas City rapper Mr. Stinky said that he threw a show at the Atlantic Star the night before Mac Dres murder, which only added to the confusion later on. Taron T-Baby Smith was shot and killed on the morning of June 12, 2010. Andre Louis Hicks (July 5, 1970 - November 1, 2004), known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper from Vallejo, California. Bells lawyers had reached out to detectives saying that their client had information regarding two murders, Mac Dres being one of them. One of those names was Papoose, who Detective Babcock remembered from his interview with Elijah Taylor, who said Papoose was the nickname of the person seen driving the stolen black Infiniti. His Las Vegas attorney, Keith Brower, was not available for comment. In an interview conducted this past January, Davila denies ever speaking about his case with other inmates. Young shared that as a result of this she is forced to live in her car . He asked him if hed submit a DNA sample to help with the investigation. In early October, he started a production company named Honeybear Productions, and enlisted the help of Kansas City rapper 40 Kal, who introduced the Bay Area artists to Whitmill. The 26-year-old friend of Dow also was charged in the deaths of Watkins and Akins. The dead body belonged to Andre Hicks, known to the world as Mac Dre, one of the most influential hip-hop artists in history. Davila recanted his previous story and told Detective Babcock that he returned to the Atlantic Star after taking his kids trick or treating. He died on Halloween night and I was throwing a Halloween party the night before and what makes it even crazier is that Fat Tone shows up to my party and gets into a fight with someone later that night. In January 2021, Davila told me that he wouldnt directly comment on his statement to Detective Babcock. 16. Nobody touched the Bay Area like Mac Dre touched the Bay Area, and I dont think nobody will. Young has been working for DoorDash and Uber Eats as a delivery driver and fears losing her rental car as she has missed payments in the past. P.O.P. 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. I would have had a house right now. He has a lengthy criminal record in Missouri dating back to 1999, when he was first arrested for selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school in Kansas City. His body was found May 23 in an unfinished housing development in Las Vegas. She had information that could be very damaging, says Hendrix. Sleep Dank looked up to Mac Dre. Detective Babcock noted that he didnt believe Antwine was being truthful. 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 told Detective Babcock in 2004 that he spoke with Mac Dre while in a limousine in front of the club. He was the center of his community; a guiding light that acted as a beacon for those closest to him. Davila was convicted in 2008 of being at the head of an organization of more than 30 people who brought in approximately 330 pounds of cocaine between 2000 and 2006. And now, as I travel throughout the world, I see people recognize him for the flavor that he brought to hip-hop. Suspecting the crew, police kept them under surveillance. Now a resurfaced 2010 interview with Dre's baby mama Lisa Johnson, 53 . In October of 2004, a Kansas City man named Damon Whitmill hoped to capitalize on Mac Dres popularity by bankrolling and promoting a rap show at what was then the Kansas City National Guard Armory. The KCPD has declined to comment on the documents. Their motives for justice and truth are almost never pure and their voluntary statements should be taken with a grain of salt. Davila is hispanic, with brown eyes and black hair. 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. When asked if it was frustrating being unable to shut a case after all the work hed done over more than a decade, Detective Babcock said this: I mean, you have the case files, he says. Gray said he was inclined to look into the case because Mouton claimed to know Dow from growing up in San Franciscos Western Addition. One of the men convicted of killing Fat Tone was a fledgling rapper and rap promoter named Andre Mac Minister Dow, who recorded the spoken word portion of the intro to The Games sophomore album, Doctors Advocate, while on the run for killing Fat Tone. Associated With. He wanted more from me. He was on his way. 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. Its all tangled up, Mr. Stinky says. But Davila spoke with more people than just jailhouse snitches and in 2008, he shared a version of events with Detective Babcock that could have solved this case more than a decade ago had he decided to follow through with his statement. His problems were behind him when he was killed, Salvatto said, and he talked about mentoring teenagers to keep them flying straight. On November 2, Mac Minister and Corleone were indicted on two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of Fat Tone and Cowboy. I put that on everything. This was perhaps the first time Detective Babcock realized Andre Hicks was more than your average Kansas City murder victim. She'd been shot in the head two days after Dow and Mathis were indicted, authorities said. Mac Dre Is A Member Of . Another informant from Leavenworth shared a similar story with Detective Babcock. 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. Whitmill hoped that Mac Dre would actually perform instead of just appear, in order to make up losses accrued over the weekend. And I delivered it to the police. Hes a Kansas City native and allegedly a small-time drug dealer, according to witnesses and informants who spoke with Detective Babcock in the months following Mac Dres death. The 35-year-old rap promoter was indicted Nov. 2 in Las Vegas on murder charges stemming from the deaths of Watkins and Akins. But when it came to Hicks' death, he said, the rumor had legs. We pleaded with her to get out of there so she wouldn't be harmed.". During their talk, Mouton said, Dow made vague references to the killings and mentioned a third murder. Dre made a bunch of demo tapes that were popular in The Crest He was famous for his demo tapes, says Mac Mall but he first made waves in the larger Bay Area with his single Too Hard for the Fuckin Radio in 1989, while still a student at Vallejos Hogan High School. The police verbalized that while Hicks was at a motel, his friends were allegedly casing a bank but had changed their mind when they saw a local Fresno TV News van in the bank's parking lot. The record signing and radio appearance were both meant to promote the October 29 concert at the National Guard Armory. He went through a lot.if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'passionweiss_com-large-mobile-banner-2','ezslot_3',156,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-passionweiss_com-large-mobile-banner-2-0'); Mac Dres name pays homage to another one of Vallejos musical legends, Michael The Mac Robinson, who was only able to release two EPs under Strictly Business Records, before being shot to death in 1991. [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. He was featured on Americas Most Wanted, and eventually arrested on March 2, 2006, becoming AMWs capture #879. All Rights Reserved. The new evidence is the latest chapter in a protracted legal saga involving numerous attempts by Dow to fight his conviction. Get Right 9. Piersey swerved off the highway and into the oncoming lanes, before crashing into a ditch, where Mac Dres body was thrown from the car. It was clear they were firing from inside the vehicle by the way the metal from the car door curled outward. Detectives eventually counted 30 bullet holes on the drivers side of the van, with copper bullets still lodged in two of the holes. He was the one everyone knew about over there.. [8][bettersourceneeded] Hicks recorded his first three EPs as Mac Dre between 1988 and 1992. 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. Here are the main Damu & Crips in Carson/Barson. He was "Fat Tone the Untouchable." The next day, though unbeknownst to Las Vegas police at the time, police in Vallejo, California responded to a report of a burning car. It was him who had arranged to have his cousin and good friend, Harold Piersey, provide the transportation to Mac Dre and his friends over Halloween Weekend, free of charge. 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. When guys are incarcerated, they try to come up with these schemes and these stories to try and help themselves. 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 always called me if he was coming through K.C. 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. He fathered a daughter named Drane. Davila and Whitmill had never met each other, with the latter telling Detective Babcock (in the police report) that Mac Dres transportation was provided by some guys in Kansas.. He was 34. Later that night, he said that he was following his white van as the driver, Harold Piersey, took Mac Dre back to The Sheraton after leaving IHop. Detective Babcock met with Antwine numerous times in the years after the murder and he repeatedly denied having any involvement. Life So Far 17. "She had information that could be very damaging," Hendrix said. Thats how my activism started. 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. 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. Its a story that lives at the intersection of an extremely strange time in hip-hop history. Telly 8. 1,282 Followers, 1,212 Following, 371 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Annie Steinberg (@macdreismydad) But its no wonder why the police didnt find the car. But a local news crew had caught wind of the robbery over the police scanner and had prematurely gone to the bank. It was also Whitmill who scheduled the club appearances and shows for the weekend. By 1992, Mac Dre had recorded a number of EPs and began his first independent label, Romper Room Records. By 2004, Mac Dre was a god in The Bay and respected nationwide. He pled guilty in 2008. 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. Coolio remembers several interactions with the police: They used to come through sweatin us. 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. His mother, Wanda Salvatto, said she'd heard about her son's death at least three times before. A day or two before the Snoop Dogg show, Tone and his goon, 22-year-old Jermain Cowboy Watkins, a fugitive from a federal cocaine charge, arrived in Vegas. Corleone and Laursen had evidently gone back to the Bay Area. 2. 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) July 5 Rapper #4. According to Corleones arrest warrant, he had admitted to a friend that he shot Tone and Cowboy to avenge Mac Dres killing. Curating the best of The Standards top-notch reporting, every Saturday. The area was poorly lit thanks to a series of street lights along the west edge of the highway. His accomplices were convicted of attempted bank robbery and given 10 years. He made the men drop everything and then told them to leave. Whitmill called off the limousine service and called Davila to see where Mac Dre was. The right side of the victims neck was up against a small tree.. 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