Photo Credit: TakeOff/Instagram
While it’s been a month since Migos rapper TakeOff was killed outside of a bowling alley, new details about his untimely death have surfaced. On the same day he was killed, the strip club promoter charged with his murder, Patrick Xavier Clark applied for an expedited passport showing a Mexico bound itinerary to speed along the request. This along with the large amount of cash he was carrying was used by prosecutors to declare him a flight risk and to set his bond at $2 million.
Since so few people responded to the Houston Police Department’s call for witnesses call for witnesses to come forward according to Homicide Division Sgt. Michael Burrow, the crime scene had to be recreated to obtain ballistic evidence and the department had to rely mostly on surveillance and cell phone video footage, which all took time to compile. Clark, known as DJ Pat in Houston was arrested December 1st in what Houston Police Chief Troy Finner described as a “peaceful” arrest despite a heavy police presence. “We’re going to come and get you, and we come and get you professionally, but we come in force with everything that we have, and he gave up,” Finner recalled telling Clark while conducting the arrest. It was then announced December 2nd that Clark had been charged with murder.
“We made a promise that we would get the individual that’s responsible for the murder of TakeOff in custody,” Finner said in a press conference. “Yesterday evening, we arrested Patrick Xavier Clark, 33 years old, and he was charged with the murder of TakeOff.” The first arrest was made in Houston on November 22nd of Lil Cam, whose real name is Cameron Joshua for felony unlawful carry of a weapon. Surveillance footage showed him brandishing a weapon at the scene of the crime. During the press conference regarding Clark’s arrest, Sgt. Burrow said, “I can tell you TakeOff was not involved in playing the dice game. He was not involved in the argument that happened outside, he was not armed, he was an innocent bystander.”
During this all, Migos member Offset just returned to the stage for the first time TakeOff’s death at E11EVEN club in Miami Friday morning where the 30 year old rapper told the crowd “We’re doing this for my brother.” Performing the hits Bad and Boujee and Clout, he shouted per Page Six reporting, “For Takeoff, let’s do this s—.” A couple days prior, his wife Cardi B made a voice note talking about how the two were doing saying, “We living our life normally, but deep down inside our hearts have been so heavy. I feel like if I talk about the incident so desensitized, I feel like if we talk about how we really feel or what motherf—-ers really been going through, y’all will start saying, ‘Oh, sympathy.’ And we don’t want no sympathy. We ain’t no charity case. But no lie, I have been feeling so hopeless trying to make my husband happy,” she added. “Trying to make him crack a smile, seeing him randomly cry, see him trying to distract his mind completely, schedules been changing, trying to keep up with work after everything that he’s been going through these past couple of weeks.”
We’re happy to see closure slowly coming to this situation.
