One of two men whose bodies were found at a housing tract under construction in Las Vegas was identified Tuesday as a Kansas City, Mo., rapper once charged with murder and listed by police as a person of interest in the killing of a hip-hop performer from the San Francisco Bay area.
The bodies of Anthony Watkins, 23, of Kansas City, Mo., and Jermaine Akins, 22, hometown unknown, were found early Monday by a security guard who noticed a car parked with its lights on in the tract's construction area.

One man was found inside the car. The other was lying on the ground just outside the vehicle.

Watkins died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Clark County Coroner's Office. A cause of death was pending for Akins.

Watkins, known as rap artist Fat Tone, was considered a person of interest in Andre Hicks' death but was never called a suspect, Kansas City police told The Kansas City Star.

Hicks, who performed as Mac Dre, was killed in November in a drive-by shooting on U.S. 71. The 34-year-old rapper, who was in Kansas City for a series of concerts, was returning to his hotel.

After his death, a number of fans posted messages on hip-hop Web sites calling for retaliation.

Hicks was the second California rap artist fatally shot in Kansas City last year. Ramone C. Davis, 31, of San Diego, was killed March 22, 2004, by a man police said was trying to rob him of marijuana.

Watkins had been wounded in Kansas City in 2003 when a gunman opened fire on a vehicle carrying him and other performers from an interview at a radio station.

Watkins and another man had been charged with first-degree murder in November 2002 for the shooting deaths of a woman and her unborn child. Those charges were dropped months later after authorities said witnesses stopped cooperating with them.

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