Man suspected of fatally taking pictures Migos rapper Takeoff at a Houston bowling alley is indicted on a homicide cost, court docket data present

• A Texas grand jury indicted a person Thursday within the taking pictures loss of life of Migos rapper Takeoff.
• Patrick Clark, 33, was free on $1 million bond when he was indicted Thursday on a homicide cost.
• Takeoff was shot within the head and again as folks left a Houston bowling alley final November.

The person accused of fatally taking pictures Migos rapper Takeoff final yr exterior a Houston bowling alley has been indicted on a homicide cost, in line with court docket data.

Patrick Xavier Clark had been free on a $1 million bond when a grand jury in Houston indicted him on Thursday.

Letitia Quinones-Hollins, certainly one of Clark’s attorneys, mentioned the indictment was not surprising.

“After we get inside a courtroom and in entrance of a jury, the place we will placed on our proof and cross-examine the state’s witnesses … we anticipate the jury will come again with a verdict of not responsible,” Quinones-Hollins mentioned Thursday in an announcement.

An legal professional for Takeoff didn’t reply to a request for remark despatched exterior of working hours.

Takeoff was shot within the head and again as greater than 30 folks have been leaving a personal occasion at 810 Billards & Bowling in downtown Houston round 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 1. Houston police have mentioned the gunfire adopted a disagreement over a “profitable” sport of cube exterior the bowling alley however that the 28-year-old rapper was not concerned and was “an harmless bystander.”

Clark, 33, who has labored as a DJ and nightclub promoter, was arrested on Dec. 1.

Authorities allege that surveillance video confirmed Clark was holding a wine bottle in a single hand when he fired his gun. Fingerprints discovered on the bottle have been later used to establish him. FBI sources had additionally pointed to Clark as being on the taking pictures, in line with police.

Prosecutors alleged Clark had tried to flee the nation earlier than his arrest, trying on-line for details about utilizing pretend aircraft tickets to acquire an expedited passport.

Quinones-Hollins denied Clark was making an attempt to depart the nation after the taking pictures. Clark’s subsequent court docket listening to is ready for Aug. 23.

Born Kirsnick Khari Ball, Takeoff was the youngest member of Migos, the Grammy-nominated rap trio from suburban Atlanta that includes his uncle Quavo and cousin Offset. The group’s breakthrough hit got here in 2013 with the one “Versace,” which was later remixed with an extra verse from Drake.

Takeoff launched his first studio album, “The Final Rocket,” in 2018 and appeared on chart-topping songs with different artists, together with Lil Wayne, Roddy Ricch, and the late Pop Smoke. 

A few month earlier than his loss of life, he launched an album with Quavo — “Solely Constructed for Infinity Hyperlinks” — as a duo, dubbing themselves Unc & Phew. The album’s hottest music, “Lodge Foyer,” went platinum in December.