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. Parts of it are right, parts of it are wrong.. Hicks had performed in that city two weeks prior and decided to go on the trip so that he could re-visit a woman he knew there. The record signing and radio appearance were both meant to promote the October 29 concert at the National Guard Armory. Robinson was initially excited about the signing until Mac Dre showed up an hour and a half late with an entourage of 22 people. 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. I feel bad because I know Dres family would have wanted to get justice for him, Davila says in January 2021. I could have gone home off of that case, but it just wasnt me.. He would have easily adapted to the age of social media. However, numerous witness statements say this never happened and police were never able to confirm it. 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. His body was found in a light colored Chevy Blazer at the intersection of 73rd and Indiana, near the Noble and Gregory Ridge area of Kansas City, Missouri. For the Bay Area artists, Kansas City became like a second home, a tour stop that guaranteed sold out shows and fan adoration. First Name Mac #5. The two San Francisco men were indicted on murder charges early this month. There was a drought, in terms of the Bay Area, says Davey D. I mean, people were putting out records, but it didnt have the national attention that it did [before]. The Mandalorian, March 1. A family member of the victim had tried calling KCPD with information, but Washington says that he was shrugged off. Piersey swerved off the highway and into the oncoming lanes, before crashing into a ditch, where Mac Dres body was thrown from the car. His 1989 debut EP, Young Black Brotha, is foundational to West Coast hip-hop. The white van allegedly belonged to Savino Davila, a 27-year-old man who prosecutors say was at the head of a drug trafficking organization that brought more than 330 pounds of cocaine into Kansas between 2000 and 2006. Or did he clear him publicly, but perhaps not privately, amongst his comrades? He said that the promoter, Damon Whitmill, who Patterson referred to as Damon or Big D, became mad at Mac Dre after he refused to perform, instead showing up late only to do a 30 minute walk through before leaving. Servin' Game 10. Sleep Dank, a Vallejo rapper and friend of Mac Dres, was born and raised in the Country Club Crest. About the Author: Mike Enemigo is Americas #1 incarcerated author, with over 25 books published and many more on the way. In a police report that Babcock wrote in November 2004, Whitmill allegedly told the detective that Mac Dre agreed to come to Kansas City and perform two live shows for a total of $12,500, with the first $6,000 to be paid immediately as a deposit. [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. 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. The Supreme Court refused to reinstate the death penalty. 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. The eldest daughter of hip-hop producer Dr. Dre recently revealed in an interview with Daily Mail that she has been living out of a rented SUV, working as a Door Dash driver, while her children. Cowboy had been shot about 13 times by the same gun and laid a few feet from the car. When questioned by the police, Hicks verbalized that he didn't leave the hotel, therefore did not know anything. 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. In March 2006, Bell told detectives that Antwine and Smith had been bragging about the murder, saying that Smith had told him that hed been paid $10,000 to perform the hit. A cosmic wrong that forever threw the world off balance for those who knew him best. 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.. [9], The city of Vallejo began experiencing a surge in bank robberies in the early 90s. [14] 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. Dre, born Andre Louis Hicks, would drop the word in his breezy, synth-filled songs, helping foment the hyphy movement of the early 2000s, and even renamed his Vallejo-based record label Thizz . Detective Babcock interviewed the stores owner, Byron Robinson, a week after the murder. Detectives were later told that just before the murder, Mac Dre had been waiting to meet up with Whitmill to receive his final payment but Whitmill never showed. 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. The front desk clerk would later report seeing four males and three females leave the hotel sometime after 3:30 a.m. Nearly an hour passed before police arrived at the accident. The dead body belonged to Andre Hicks, known to the world as Mac Dre, one of the most influential hip-hop artists in history. According to Corleones arrest warrant, he had admitted to a friend that he shot Tone and Cowboy to avenge Mac Dres killing. 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. Fat Tone was West Coast-friendly, DJ Fresh says. The van was completely totaled. In 2001, at the age of 20, Fat Tone was arrested and charged with the double-homicide of a 19-year-old girl and her unborn child. 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. Taron T-Baby Smith was shot and killed on the morning of June 12, 2010. "[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. Macnificent 15. Bussey said that his client did not wish to provide the sample, saying that Whitmill was afraid that his DNA would be put in a database for comparisons to other crimes. Six months later, police say, a San Francisco rap promoter nicknamed "Mac Minister" and a friend avenged Hicks in Las Vegas by firing 33 assault-rifle rounds into two Kansas City men -- including Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins. Its a story that lives at the intersection of an extremely strange time in hip-hop history. He was found near Watkins' body. The relationship between the two scenes is also a testament to Mac Dres allure. His problems were behind him when he was killed, Salvatto said, and he talked about mentoring teenagers to keep them flying straight. Thats what I would have done. She thought he'd take care of her. The new evidence is the latest chapter in a protracted legal saga involving numerous attempts by Dow to fight his conviction. 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. Mac Dre was an artist ahead of his time. The prosecutor also said that the death would be painless, which defense for Antwine argued was untrue and manipulative to the jury. Crestside 12. For a while up, for Id say up to about eight years after he passed, his daughter and I kind of like went into seclusion,Wanda Mac says. Salvatto, Hicks' mother, said she doesn't know what to make of the killings and finds it hard to believe that they are connected to her son's death -- although she has noticed that "people like to be tied to the drama." 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.. [10] Vallejo police began focusing on the Crest Neighborhood as a source of the crime. Rappers. 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. Detective Babcock also spoke with several jailhouse informants that Davila had allegedly been communicating with while awaiting trial at the Leavenworth Detention Center. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 60. r/CaliBanging. While still incarcerated, Mac Dre re-released Young Black Brotha as his debut album in 1993, featuring a number of songs with vocals recorded through a jail phone. Gray said Mouton was a federal informant who faced up to 40 years in prison at the time of his testimony in a trafficking case involving a minor. "Every shooting that happened (in Kansas City), you would get calls saying, 'Fat Tone did it, Fat Tone did it.' 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. He wanted me to get into music.. Detectives eventually counted 30 bullet holes on the drivers side of the van, with copper bullets still lodged in two of the holes. Instead, Mac Dre showed up late again, only stayed for 30 minutes and then left without performing. [citation needed], Mac Dre moved to the Arden-Arcade area of Sacramento in 1998 in attempt to distance himself from Vallejo law enforcement. Andre Louis Hicks, better known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper, hip hop pioneer, and record producer based in Vallejo, California. He would later tell Detective Babcock that Whitmill was angry after Mac Dre left without performing. 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. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to The Cell BlocksPrivacy PolicyandTerms of Use. Know Your City! He asked him if hed submit a DNA sample to help with the investigation. In exchange for his testimony, he was let out a few weeks after Mr. Dows trial, said Gray, managing attorney of a San Francisco DA unit that investigates police shootings and other use-of-force incidents, called the Independent Investigations Bureau. She prefers to ignore the hype and enjoy the sight of young people wearing "Mac Dre" T-shirts, some who discovered his music in the past year. Detectives noted in the investigative report that the computer entry for the stolen Infiniti showed the car as being silver, instead of black. He fearfully ran the other way, eventually ending up back at The Baymont 45 minutes later, where he told the front desk worker to call the police. Star Wars fans, rejoice! Could this be a cryptic way of saying it was Tone and Cowboy, or have others passed on, too? While Mac Dre merely rapped about the lavish life of a major cocaine dealer Davila actually lived it. On the way back to Fresno, the car was pulled over and surrounded by officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as Vallejo police. He stayed for only 30 minutes, according to Whitmill, before abruptly leaving without performing. 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