About ready. Good. All right.
Afternoon, everyone.
Chief Fenner here with mayor and mayor.
Thank you for the support.
We're here to announce an arrest,
but before, before I do that,
I always start with that human element.
I spoke to take off some mother earlier this
morning and my prayers and I asked that
all our prayers continue to go out to her.
And his entire family,
his close friends.
City of Atlanta.
And all of takeoffs fans around the world.
We lost a good man and I didn't
have the pleasure of meeting him.
But everybody,
the hundreds of people that I I talked to,
spoke on what a great individual he was.
We have a special relationship
with the City of Atlanta.
I want to make sure that stays intact.
I want to thank them,
the family and everybody else for patience,
allowing us to work on through.
The evidence and the facts
which is most important.
I also want to thank our investigators
here today, Sergeant Michael Barrow.
Lieutenant Barnes.
Investigator Ross Watson and
also from the DA's office,
Ruben Perez and Matt Gilliam,
who's worked very hard on this case,
all of our individuals, our divisions,
our homicide division, thank you.
People don't know the hard work
that they do behind the scenes,
the number of our hours that they're
away from their family members, so.
Also the gang division.
Our federal partners, FBI,
state partner, DPS and ATF,
everybody took a role in this investigation.
We stood here a little bit,
I think a month ago,
maybe a day or two.
And made a promise that we would get.
The individuals or the individual that's
responsible for the murder of take
off in custody, so yesterday evening.
We arrested Patrick Xavier Brown,
33 years old.
He was charged with the murder of takeoff.
Brown was arrested again yesterday evening.
In the 14700 block of.
Sterling Green Blvd.
It's located on the east side of Texas.
I'm sorry if Houston.
Again, Joshua, Cameron, Joshua.
22 years old was arrested.
On November the 22nd for felon
in possession of a weapon.
I'm gonna turn it over
to the mayor right now.
And after that we're going to bring
up the investigators and then the
district Attorney's office and then.
Commander Garcia would translate
for us in Spanish.
Thank you.
Thank
you. Thank you, chief.
And look, let me thank your entire team
and all of your law enforcement partners
that have been working on this case.
Let me thank the.
The prosecutors from the DA's office,
I really appreciate their, their,
their presence and their work.
And I've certainly realized
that the work even continues.
And in this case,
I do want to point out the
fact that over the last month,
I've had several conversations
with the Mayor of Atlanta,
Mayor Andre Dickens,
kind of keeping him advised of
this investigation and what was
taking place and talk with him
as late as yesterday evening.
To apprise him of what would
be taking place on today.
Look it was about a month ago
when we stood here as a team
to discuss the shooting death,
Kirshner, Kyrie,
Bob Ball and public members take off.
We all know mistake on talented
entertainer and part of the
Atlanta based group the MICOS.
I do also want to acknowledge Council
member with power tools with us this
afternoon but in more than entertainer.
He was a son, a brother,
cousin and a friend and a mentor to those
in the music industry at that time.
We also asked witnesses to
help police identify takeoffs.
Killer.
And prevent more violence from
happening in retaliation.
I am glad that the suspect has been
arrested and charged with take off death.
Certainly I think we're bringing
some comfort to the family,
though it does not bring
or take off back now.
This is a significant step towards
seeking justice and I hope it
also brings additional comfort to
all of those who left take off.
Over the past few weeks,
Chief Ben and I were asked often about
the status of the investigation.
The chief kept me informed about
the information that we received.
The evidence has been collected,
including the videos on the
video that was being reviewed.
I want to express my regrets and
disappointment that this was a case
of another a young man taking the
life of another young man for no,
for no reason.
The gun violence everywhere,
not just in the city of Houston, has to stop.
People are dying for little or no reason,
and people are reaching for
deadly firearm to settle.
Sometimes a minor disagreement,
but pulling the firearm can have deadly
consequences that you cannot undo.
And so I'm glad that our arrest
has taken place,
that we do have someone in custody.
It is unfortunate.
It really is unfortunate because
it does not bring takeoff back,
but two cheap, cheap enough to you,
to your command staff,
to the investigators,
to the DA's office,
to all of their partners who helped,
to those who provided tips,
information and let me,
let me let me thank you and then look
forward to this investigation and
prosecution continuing on this matter.
Thank you, chief.
Let me step up and make a quick
correction on the name as to
how the misprint on my notes.
It's Patrick Xavier Clark,
33 years old, on the rest of
the suspect, OK? Come on, sort.
Good afternoon. Sergeant Michael
Burrough with the homicide division.
The chief was very gracious and
recognizing a lot of the partners
that we were involved with.
In this case, I did want to
recognize a couple of other people
that or organizations that helped
a lot with the investigation,
the Houston Forensic Science Center.
Our Lab Rats, so to speak.
The people that do our forensic analysis,
they work behind the scenes a lot.
They don't get a lot of recognition
and they helped us answer a
lot of important questions,
in this case when others would not.
That includes our firearm section or latent
print section in our Crime scene unit.
Quick note, just and there's going to be a
lot of questions about the investigation.
The investigation is still ongoing.
We still have a lot of people that
we're trying to locate and talk to.
So we will be a little bit
short on details here.
We probably will not be able to
answer all of your questions,
but I can tell you to confirm some
of the speculations out there.
The event was a private party.
There was a lucrative dice game
that went on at the event.
There was an argument that happened
afterwards outside the bowling alley,
which led to the shooting.
I can tell you that takeoff was not
involved in playing in the dice game.
He was not involved in the
argument that happened outside.
He was not armed.
He was an innocent bystander.
Some important case factors.
You know that the chief was.
Was mentioning some of the
the timing here I mean.
We've boiled it down to over 30
people that were standing outside.
We have an exact number.
We're not going to put that
out when the shooting happened.
Literally every single one of
those people left the scene without
giving a statement to police.
We found some, a few of them that night.
We found others since then.
But it's important that those people
come forward and we are still looking
to talk to a lot of those people.
And we will be looking to find you.
It will be easier if you come find us,
will be easier for you.
It will be easier for us as well.
You know, essentially we had to
rely on a large volume of video
surveillance evidence that came in
and cell phone videos and audio
things that surfaced over time,
in some cases that weren't
available immediately.
We had to sift through all of that
and use physical evidence and use
shooting reconstruction and confirm
a lot of our ballistic evidence,
what weapons were involved,
things of that nature.
And through that,
we were able to deduce that Patrick
Clark is the lethal shooter in the case,
and that's why he's being
charged with murder.
Thank you. Sorry, got the
DA's office. Thank you, chief.
Thank you. Thank you, mayor.
My name is Ruben Perez and I'm a
Bureau chief of Special Crimes Bureau.
My Bureau was in charge of this
investigation at the DA's office.
I want to thank the prosecutors in
my Bureau for working extremely hard.
And I really want to thank the HPD
organization for all the work and the
collaborative effort they put into
this case along with the DA's office.
And I also want to thank our
federal partners for for their help.
And I want to thank everybody
who was involved in this case.
I want to echo what the mayor said,
I want to echo what Chief Fenner
said and I want to echo what the
investigator said that it took a lot of.
I've heard a lot of work,
a lot of patients,
but we we arrested this defendant.
We look forward to prosecuting
this case and I want to send our
sympathies to the family and we look
forward to prosecuting this case
and we'll see everybody in court.
Thank you.
No.
We want to start this.
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persistence and investigation.
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participate in this investigation.
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in the investigation,
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We're open up for questions.
Joshua was already arrested and we
see his picture attached to this one.
How is he connected to this case?
What's his status? He
was there on the scene and he
was in possession of a weapon.
He's a felon. OK, Mr. Clark.
Or was that like a motive?
We're still investigating that and we
were not able to discuss it right now.
Just just the dice games. Thank you.
Actually connected Mr.
Clark with the either the gun
of the bullet or whatever.
Yeah, not, not today. As the
time comes, we will all right.
That was using this crime.
We're not going to discuss that right now.
Still active in investigation.
We told you, and just not
a whole lot of detail.
The main thing right now,
he's in custody, he's arrested in
these charts for for this murder.
Still some work to be done on it,
but we're not going to go in
any farther than we've already
went on the investigation.
People often talked about the
fact that in this case too,
there were so many people on
scene they don't come for they
like leave and and you guys had
to sort of work backwards were
were there any witnesses who were
helpful or did you basically have
to construct all of this from the
I can tell you? Pieces are.
I can tell you it's upstanding
investigative work on this.
Not a lot of help for people
coming up and stepping up,
but I don't want to judge them.
But they do need to come in because
we know who was on the scene and
we will be contacting and reaching
out and finding those individuals.
This is a murder.
And if you left because you
were afraid or whatnot,
I don't know the motivation,
but you do have to come forward and and
and and give us some information and.
That could come through grand
jury and peanuts as well.
So.
Target or was he? At the wrong place,
we already yeah, it's definitely
wrong place at the wrong time.
No evidence whatsoever to
say anything different.
Go ahead, I'll get you.
Was about average African, I'm sorry.
Basically could you tell us about
ohh yes yes the the the actual rest
of them yeah peacefully we and I'm
not bragging but I I send this this
message to I'll I'll criminals we're
going to come and get you and we
come and get you professionally but
we come in for us with everything
that we have and he he gave up and
and I want to say thanks for that.
Nobody's hurt nobody's injured. Go ahead.
High standard, can you say it all,
where he was situated in
terms of where the gunman was?
No, we won't go in into it.
But he, he was actually on the
scene and that we all know it.
There are some video out there,
but we're going to stay away
from specifics right now.
Go ahead. Don't take off.
We don't know.
Has Patrick Clark admitted to the shooting?
Not a. Not going to discuss that right now.
Shooting in 2018 at a club
where someone was killed,
that's part of the investigation and
I mean, we'll get it out to you.
Who, what's what's Tuesday, right?
Yeah, well, one, but one of them has
a new residence outside of Houston.
Out there, we don't know.
We're not going to.
Don't rule anything we we're going to
go with the facts and the evidence
lead and you remember what I said
suspect or suspects and we're going
to leave no stone unturned it's
it's and everybody family deserve
that and and and I want to say this
and we're going to probably do it
just a few more questions and we're
going to leave the guy work to do
any individual that's killed in our
city it's tough and it's tough on the
family and tough on their friends
everybody deserves an investigation
but the the investigators. Said it.
We need people to step up to do
your part as a citizen,
and if you see something,
you need to say something.
Don't let the fear paralyze you.
Step up and say something and and
and we're all better and safer
for the because of that one more.
It felt to flee or leave town.
Is that why you guys moved in last
night or can you tell us about?
I don't want to go into any details
on that, but we we we suspect you,
we'll have our eyes on you.
Can I ask you? Of course. National if not.
What message do you want to send
to the broader community about
this case and the situation?
Well, the one message is #1.
You can come and commit murder in this
city and expect to not get caught.
Quite frankly. Guns will kill.
Any of you use a weapon.
In the heat of the moment,
or whatever the facts may be,
if you fire it,
you can have deadly consequences.
And then someone can either be seriously
wounded or someone in this case,
like take off can lose his life.
And you heard the investigators
say he was an innocent bystander.
But regardless of whether you are
an individual that a celebrity,
or you're not a celebrity at all,
we are going to investigate every case
with the greatest degree of intensity,
utilizing all available resources to find
who the person was or who the persons were.
The other point that I will make
is that if you have 30 people.
That are in that setting.
And one of those persons, for example in
this case like was takeoff was killed.
Everybody else has a responsibility to
contribute to finding out who did it.
So I don't give anybody an out.
If you were there.
And you saw something and you know something.
You don't get a pass.
Everybody has to take on
responsibility and then lastly,
I was simply saying there are
just too many young men. And,
and I'm even a little bit even more specific.
There are too many young men of color.
Who are killing other young men of color.
And that has to stop.
That has to stop.
So this is unfortunate.
And you have a young man, I think that
they 33 years old is the suspect here.
And takeoff was under the age of 30.
OK. So all families are impacted
in this situation,
but if you commit a crime in this city,
we are going to expand all
available resources to find you.
OK?
All right. Thank you all.
One month after.
One month after that fatal shooting
at a downtown Houston Bowling alley,
police have made an arrest.
They've arrested 33 year old Patrick Xavier
Clark for the murder of rapper take off,
who was part of the rap trio Migos.
Clark was arrested last
night on the east side.
Yeah, and police officials
saying it wasn't a police tip,
but surveillance and shooting,
reconstruction, good old-fashioned police
work that helped lead them to Clark.
We will have much more on this
story on kgw.com and on KU 11
News starting at 4:00 o'clock
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