Takeoff, a third member of the influential Atlanta rap organization Migos, was killed Tuesday in a shooting in Houston at the age of 28.
Kirshnik Khari Ball, known as Takeoff, component of Migos along with Quavo and Offset. He died early Tuesday after being shot after a personal component, Houston Police Decomposition Chief Troy Finner said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
In an initial report received via USA TODAY on Wednesday, the death of Takeoff of the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science was a murder and listed the rapper’s primary cause of death as “penetrating gunshot wounds to the head and torso in the arm. “
Finner said Tuesday that at least two other people had fired firearms and two others had non-life-threatening injuries after they were also hit. They were taken to hospitals in personal vehicles.
Police responded shortly after 2:30 a. m. m. a reports of a shooting at 810 Billiards.
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Security guards who were in the domain heard the gunshots but saw who had fired the shots, a police spokesman said.
No arrests have been announced. Members of the media at the venue later Tuesday morning were guarded across the street, which was blocked to the public in a different way.
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Grammy-nominated Migos is for his 2010s hits “Versace” and “Bad and Boujee. “
By Tuesday morning, several enthusiasts had gathered in front of the bowling alley, which is located in a three-story grocery shopping complex in downtown Houston that features high-end restaurants, a House of Blues and is close to a Four Seasons hotel.
Isaiah Lopez, 24, ran out of his home in Humble, a suburb of Houston, after learning that Takeoff had been killed.
“It’s one of our favorites, mine and my brother’s. That’s all we would pay attention to,” Lopez said as he carried a dozen roses he hoped to place near the shooting site. “As soon as my brother called me and said, ‘The takeoff is over,’ I had to come here and pay my respects. “
Thomas Moreno, 30, who lives about five minutes from the scene of the shooting, said he met Takeoff once at a Houston bar and restaurant in June and said he was “a great guy. “
“I think it’s just another smart user who left too early,” Moreno said. “It happens every day, but it hurts even more when you’re dealing with someone so talented and young. “
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Born on June 18, 1994, in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Takeoff grew up with his former collaborators, Quavo and Offset. “I wanted to rap,” Takeoff recalled of his upbringing in a 2013 interview with Fader. , I was in the studio, what we call side, I was making music, I was struggling. “
Migos exploded in the early 2010s thanks to the song “Versace,” which went viral. His debut studio album, “Yung Rich Nation”, released in 2015 and featured Chris Brown and Yung Thug. went on to release 3 more studio albums: “Cultura” (2017), which included the first single “Bad and Boujee” that would spend 3 weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot hundred and earned two Grammy nominations, “Cultura II” (2018) and “Cultura III” (2021).
“We don’t give up, because it’s our time. We’re going to take advantage of it,” Offset told USA TODAY in 2017. “You don’t see a lot of other people having longevity, because they’re coming. My grandmother used to tell me, ‘You don’t need to hit fast, because you can leave as fast as you got in. ‘”
Last month, Quavo and Takeoff released their debut album “Only Built for Infinity Links” on Motown Records as a duo nicknamed Unc and Phew, Offset. The first single, “Hotel Lobby (Unc)
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Contribute: The Associated Press