Quavo's personal assistant files lawsuit against owners of Houston venue where Migos star Takeoff was killed

Attorneys for Joshua Washington, one of the three individuals wounded in the November 2022 shooting that killed Grammy-nominated rapper Takeoff, has filed a lawsuit against the Houston venue where the Migos star was killed.

Washington is suing 810 Houston, their owners and property managers, claiming the venue and event failed to provide adequate security, screening or emergency assistance either before or after the incident that left the Migos star dead, and wounded Washington and two others.

Washington is represented by renowned civil rights attorney Bakari Sellers of the Strom Law Firm and Audia Jones of the Law Office of Audia Jones.

“810 Houston was warned that they needed extra security. They knew it was a hotspot for violent crime and that an after hours event like this could turn deadly in a second. But they ignored those warnings and now they have blood on their hands,” said Sellers. “This shooting was a tragedy. But it was a preventable tragedy.”

Takeoff, whose real name is Kirsnik Khari Ball, was the youngest member of the Migos and known as the quiet one. The other members, Quavo, was his uncle and Offset was his cousin.

On Nov. 1, 2022, Houston police and paramedics from the Houston Fire Department were dispatched to reports of a shooting at 810 Billiards & Bowling, located in the downtown area, shortly after 2:30 a.m.

Emergency crews arrived to find a large crowd gathered on a balcony outside of the third-floor bowling alley, and a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the head or neck. The man, Takeoff, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 28 years old.

Patrick Xavier Clark, 33, was later charged with his murder and is still awaiting trial.

According to the lawsuit, the Defendants 810 Houston, LVA4 Houston Greenstreet, Lionstone Partners, Midway Companies Llc, and Cushman & Wakefeld Of Texas failed to take even the most basic security precautions though they assured invitees that they had, but left victims like Washington to fend for themselves when the shooting started.

“They had no properly trained security personnel, adequate signage, lighting or cameras. They had no screening to keep out weapons. They didn’t even have a working metal detector,” said Jones. “This was a powder keg of their own making and folks like Takeoff and Joshua Washington got caught in the explosion.”

Washington, who was working as personal assistant to Takeoff’s uncle and bandmate Quavo at the time, says it became immediately apparent that the security the venue had promised simply didn’t exist once shots rang out.

“There was no one,” Washington said. “The bullets started flying and no one came to help. There were no security guards trying to stop the shooting, no one to help those of us who were hurt, no one at all. They just left us there to die.”

Washington, an innocent bystander, was shot in his right side, the bullets missing his colon by inches. He is currently a resident of Georgia.

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