In the spring of 2014, the life of 32-year-old Calvert L. Antwine, a Black male, came to a violent and abrupt end on the streets of Kansas City, Missouri. On the afternoon of March 20th, a chaotic scene unfolded near 13th Street and Virginia Avenue, culminating in a single-vehicle crash. First responders arrived to find an SUV overturned, but the cause of the incident was far more sinister than a mere traffic accident. Inside the wrecked vehicle was Antwine, who was pronounced dead at the scene. An investigation would later reveal that he had been the victim of a targeted attack.
Witnesses recounted a harrowing sequence of events that preceded the crash. They reported seeing a silver Dodge Charger pursuing Antwine's SUV, with occupants of the Charger firing shots at his vehicle. The chase ended when Antwine's SUV crashed and rolled onto its roof. The assailants in the silver Dodge Charger fled the scene, leaving a puzzle for law enforcement to piece together. The Kansas City Police Department classified Antwine's death as a homicide, though it was not immediately clear whether he succumbed to gunshot wounds or injuries sustained in the crash. In the immediate aftermath, authorities appealed to the public for any information that could lead to the identification and capture of those responsible, but the case grew cold, with no arrests being made.
Years after his death, information surfaced that suggested Antwine's murder could have been connected to another high-profile killing that had occurred a decade earlier. Investigative reports and witness testimonies from the unsolved 2004 murder of California rapper Mac Dre in Kansas City implicated a man identified as Calvert 'Papoose' Antwine II as the driver of the vehicle from which the fatal shots were fired. While law enforcement has not officially named any suspects or made arrests in Antwine's homicide, the specter of his alleged involvement in the rapper's death has led to speculation that his own demise may have been an act of retaliation. Despite these lingering questions and the passage of time, the case of who killed Calvert L. Antwine remains officially unsolved, another name on the list of Kansas City's cold case homicides.
