Police Say Migos Rapper Takeoff Is an Innocent Bystander Before His Tragic Death; Suspect Arrested in Houston

On Monday, the defendant who is accused of killing rapper TakeOff of the Migos is scheduled to return to court.

Patrick Xavier Clark, 33, and his attorney will appear before a judge in Houston for a preliminary court hearing more than a month after TakeOff was shot and died.

Migos Rapper Takeoff's Killer Arrested

Clark requested a court-appointed attorney and identified himself as a self-employed DJ with no income in a court document.

The night TakeOff was slain, Clark was allegedly seen on surveillance footage shooting a revolver while holding a wine bottle outside the 810 Billiards and Bowling Alley. According to the prosecution, a different camera captured him close up with the gun before making off in a car.

Clark's bond was set at $2 million at a prior court proceeding after the prosecution painted him as a flight risk. Having been described as a flight risk by the prosecution at a prior court hearing, Clark's bond was set at $2 million. According to the police, he was carrying a passport and a significant amount of cash. He was taken into custody by the police along with a passport and a substantial amount of cash. after he was taken into custody.

According to court records, Clark resisted giving information about the shooting when he was being arrested. If Clark is released on bail, he will be subject to a string of restrictions, such as a 24-hour house arrest, an electronic monitor, a ban on possessing any weapons or intoxicating substances, and no contact with the victim's family.

Clark's was revealed by the Houston Police Department on Friday at a press conference. They claimed that he was peacefully taken into custody on Thursday. HPD Chief Troy Finner said at the news conference that TakeOff was an innocent bystander who was shot when a dice game became violent but provided few more facts about the case or what made them suspect Clark as the gunman, as per KHOU.

As per Michael Burrow, a sergeant with the Homicide Division, an altercation broke out outside of a private party that included a lucrative dice game, and that's when the shooting happened.

Takeoff was not involved in the shooting or the dice game and was not armed. Burrow affirmed, He was an innocent bystander. Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff's member Kirsnik Khari Ball, also known as Takeoff, perished in the shooting on November 1. He was 28.

The rapper's primary cause of death was stated as penetrating gunshot wounds of the head and body into arm by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, which classified Takeoff's death as a homicide. At the time of the incident, according to Finner, at least two people fired shots, and two further people were struck and had non-life-threatening wounds. They were transported to hospitals in private vehicles.

Just around 2:30 in the morning, police arrived. Police reported that numerous individuals had congregated on a balcony outside the third-floor bowling alley at 810 Billiards & Bowling in response to reports of a shooting.

Another Man Arrested in Connection with Takeoff's Death

When officers arrived, they found one individual deceased. More than seven hours after the shooting, at around 10 a.m, a body was seen being transported into a medical examiner's van by an AP reporter who was on the site.

The 2010 mega-hit songs Versace and Bad and Boujee made the Grammy-nominated group Migos, which comprises Quavo, Takeoff's uncle born Quavious Keyate Marshall, and cousin Offset born Kiari Kendrell Cephus, famous worldwide. At a funeral gathering last month in Atlanta, fans and other performers-among them Drake and Justin Bieber celebrated Takeoff's musical legacy, USA Today reported.

Cameron Joshua, also known as Lil Cam or Lil Cam 5th, was apprehended by Houston's Harris County Sheriff's Office on November 22. Lil Cam 5th was officially charged in connection with the crime on Wednesday, November 30, as reported by The Associated Press. Despite initial internet rumors to the contrary, he is not thought to have fired his illegal weapon during the sad shooting that claimed Takeoff's life.

On November 11, Takeoff (actual name Kirsnick Khari Ball) was laid to rest in his hometown of Atlanta's State Farm Arena. At the annual Miami Beach Art Basel on December 1st, Offset paid tribute to him while performing. On Metro Boomin's recently released Heroes & Villains, Takeoff's first posthumous verse originally appeared on Friday, as per Uproxx.