Right. Ready. Good. All right.
Good 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 offs mother early this
morning and my prayers and I exit.
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 and want
to make sure that stays intact.
I want to thank them,
the family and everybody else for
patience allowing us to work 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 our divisions,
our homicide division, thank you.
People don't know the hard work
that they do behind the scenes,
the number of 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 takeoff 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.
And the 14700 block of.
Sterling Green Blvd.
It's located on the east side of Texas.
I'm sorry if 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 gonna 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.
For 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 and
when we stood here as a team to discuss
the shooting death of Kirsten, Kyrie,
Bob Baum, public numbers take off.
We all knew his take on a talented
entertainer and part of the
Atlanta based group the Migos.
I do also want to acknowledge
Councilmember Edward Pollard,
who's 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 Keller and prevent
more violence from happening in retaliation.
I am glad that I suspect has been arrested.
The charge would take off death it certainly.
I think we're bringing some
comfort to the family,
though it does not bring or take
off back and this is a significant
step towards seeking justice and
I hope it also brings additional
comfort to all of those who left
take off of 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 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
a 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 take off 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. 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.
Had a misprint on my notes.
It's Patrick Xavier Clark,
33 years old on the rest of the suspect.
OK, come on, Sarge.
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 know 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 the the chief of.
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,
be easier for you.
It will be easier for us as well.
Umm.
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 overtime 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.
But 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 effort,
lot of work, a lot of patience.
But we, we arrested this defendant.
We look forward to prosecuting this
case and 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.
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We're open up for questions.
Kevin Johnson, 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,
so does Mr. Clark lose the ice cave
or or was that like a motive of this
was still investigating that and
we were not able to discuss it
right now just just the dice games,
thank you. More specifics about
how you actually connected?
With the either the gun or whatever.
Yeah, not, not today. As the
time comes, we will all right.
We're 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 and
he's charged for for this murder.
Still some work to be done on it,
but we're not going to go in
any further than we've already
went on the investigation.
You 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 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 him.
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 peanut as well, so.
And the 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.
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not bragging but I I send this this
message to I'll criminals 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 he gave up and and
I want to say thanks for that. OK.
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, 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. We don't know yet.
Patrick Clark admitted to the shooting.
Not a not gonna discuss that right now, but
was Mr. Clark involved in a
shooting in 2018 at a club where
someone was killed? That's
part of the investigation. I mean,
we'll get it out to you. Houston. Who?
What's what's Tuesday? Right? Yeah,
well, one, but one of them has a
new residence outside of Houston.
Go ahead. Expect more suspects out there.
We don't know. We're not going to.
Through anything we we're going to go
with the facts and 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 investigative.
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 that because of that one more.
Or. Didn't 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 a question?
National if not one story,
what do you what message do you want
to send to the broader community
about this case in this 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 were killed.
Any of you use a weapon.
In the heat of the moment,
or whatever the facts may be,
if you fire it,
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 wasn't 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
they're 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. It has to stop.
So this is unfortunate.
And you have a young man.
I think that the 833 years
old is the suspect here.
And takeoff was under the age of 30.
OK. So all families are impacted
and 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.
Thanks man. Thanks.