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A Tragedy in the Family
A Tragedy in the Family of Coven and Crazy D,a Great, Funny, Hard Core Partying, Hip Hop Group. the Wankers have played with them before, this comes from an email From City Mouse:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/g
At our first stop on tour, our tourmate Hunter (Coven from Coven & Crazy D) drowned in Chicago. We love and miss him so much. It's still hard to fathom that something could go so wrong. We're back home now. We will not be continuing the tour as there is a lot of arrangements to be made and all attention will be devoted to his son and other family for the time being. The following is coverage from the Lexington Herald Leader and the Chicago Tribune.
Herald Leader
Posted on Sat, Aug. 06, 2005
Richmond hip-hop artist found dead
By Ashlee Clark
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
The body of a member of a Richmond hip-hop duo was found early yesterday in the Chicago River.
Hunter Whitaker, 25, of Richmond, was found dead by the Chicago Fire Department at 5:50 a.m. yesterday off Lakeshore Drive, said Sgt. Robert Cargie, a news affairs officer with the Chicago Police Department.
The cause of Whitaker's death will not be known until a medical examiner's investigation is complete, Cargie said.
Whitaker and Richmond resident David Webster performed as the comedic gangsta rap group Coven and Crazy D.
They had been on a U.S. tour with a Lexington punk-pop group, City Mouse. The first stop on their tour was Thursday at The Studio in Chicago.
Coven and Crazy D's music had been compared to rap groups the Beastie Boys and The Bloodhound Gang. The duo released an album, Gangsters and Busters, on the Berea- and Lexington-based Eugene Records label this summer.
"This is a terrible, terrible thing -- Hunter was a really great guy and had a lot of friends that will sorely miss him," said a post on the Eugene Records Web site.
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Rescuers pull body from Belmont Harbor
Tribune staff reports
Chicago Tribune
Published August 5, 2005, 4:03 PM CDT
Chicago firefighters early this morning recovered the body of a man who apparently drowned while swimming in Belmont Harbor, CLTV reported.
The victim was identified as Hunter Whitker, 23, CLTV reported. His address was not immediately available.
Whitker was walking with five or six friends along the North Side harbor early today when he decided to jump into the water for a swim, authorities said.
The friends called for help when he disappeared.
Firefighters recovered Whitker's body shortly before 6 a.m., CLTV reported. The man was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
If confirmed as a drowning, it would be the second this week along the city's Lake Michigan shore. The previous drowning occurred late Wednesday.
Jonathan Vroman, 19, of the 2100 block of North Sawyer Avenue, was walking with friends along the lake shortly before midnight that evening and decided to go swimming.
Vroman jumped into the lake from a breakwater near Pratt Beach, 1050 W. Pratt Blvd. on the city's North Side. Friends called 911 when Vroman did not reappear.
Fire and police rescuers pulled the man from the water about an hour after he vanished and took him to St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, where he was pronounced dead.
The Cook County medical examiner's office determined Vroman died of drowning. The man's mother said she believed her son had been drinking with his friends before the accident.
Tribune wire services contributed to this story.
A Tragedy in the Family of Coven and Crazy D,a Great, Funny, Hard Core Partying, Hip Hop Group. the Wankers have played with them before, this comes from an email From City Mouse:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/g
At our first stop on tour, our tourmate Hunter (Coven from Coven & Crazy D) drowned in Chicago. We love and miss him so much. It's still hard to fathom that something could go so wrong. We're back home now. We will not be continuing the tour as there is a lot of arrangements to be made and all attention will be devoted to his son and other family for the time being. The following is coverage from the Lexington Herald Leader and the Chicago Tribune.
Herald Leader
Posted on Sat, Aug. 06, 2005
Richmond hip-hop artist found dead
By Ashlee Clark
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
The body of a member of a Richmond hip-hop duo was found early yesterday in the Chicago River.
Hunter Whitaker, 25, of Richmond, was found dead by the Chicago Fire Department at 5:50 a.m. yesterday off Lakeshore Drive, said Sgt. Robert Cargie, a news affairs officer with the Chicago Police Department.
The cause of Whitaker's death will not be known until a medical examiner's investigation is complete, Cargie said.
Whitaker and Richmond resident David Webster performed as the comedic gangsta rap group Coven and Crazy D.
They had been on a U.S. tour with a Lexington punk-pop group, City Mouse. The first stop on their tour was Thursday at The Studio in Chicago.
Coven and Crazy D's music had been compared to rap groups the Beastie Boys and The Bloodhound Gang. The duo released an album, Gangsters and Busters, on the Berea- and Lexington-based Eugene Records label this summer.
"This is a terrible, terrible thing -- Hunter was a really great guy and had a lot of friends that will sorely miss him," said a post on the Eugene Records Web site.
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Rescuers pull body from Belmont Harbor
Tribune staff reports
Chicago Tribune
Published August 5, 2005, 4:03 PM CDT
Chicago firefighters early this morning recovered the body of a man who apparently drowned while swimming in Belmont Harbor, CLTV reported.
The victim was identified as Hunter Whitker, 23, CLTV reported. His address was not immediately available.
Whitker was walking with five or six friends along the North Side harbor early today when he decided to jump into the water for a swim, authorities said.
The friends called for help when he disappeared.
Firefighters recovered Whitker's body shortly before 6 a.m., CLTV reported. The man was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
If confirmed as a drowning, it would be the second this week along the city's Lake Michigan shore. The previous drowning occurred late Wednesday.
Jonathan Vroman, 19, of the 2100 block of North Sawyer Avenue, was walking with friends along the lake shortly before midnight that evening and decided to go swimming.
Vroman jumped into the lake from a breakwater near Pratt Beach, 1050 W. Pratt Blvd. on the city's North Side. Friends called 911 when Vroman did not reappear.
Fire and police rescuers pulled the man from the water about an hour after he vanished and took him to St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, where he was pronounced dead.
The Cook County medical examiner's office determined Vroman died of drowning. The man's mother said she believed her son had been drinking with his friends before the accident.
Tribune wire services contributed to this story.
