Titania Davenport, mom of late Migos rapper Takeoff, has filed a wrongful demise lawsuit towards the house owners of 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, Texas, the place her son was shot and killed final November, Rolling Stone and Billboard report. In keeping with paperwork obtained by each publications, Davenport’s grievance cites 18 cases of alleged negligence on the a part of the Houston venue.
Davenport filed the grievance Wednesday (June 7) in a Harris County district courtroom towards the property house owners and a number of LLCs in affiliation with the Houston outpost of 810 Billiards & Bowling (the franchise has areas in a number of different cities within the southern US). Her swimsuit alleges that the venue didn’t present enough safety on the night time of Takeoff’s demise.
Within the grievance, Davenport reportedly claims that the venue “offered no screening mechanisms, no after-hour controls or safety measures, and no enforcement of guidelines or business requirements to discourage crime towards their invitees, to incorporate [Takeoff].”
Elsewhere within the lawsuit, Davenport states that 810 Billiards & Bowling ought to have been extra ready as a result of quite a lot of violent crimes that had occurred “on the topic premises and within the surrounding space,” and that they need to have been extra vigilant as a result of superstar attendees on the venue that night time. Particularly, the swimsuit factors out that the venue had been rented by the household of music govt J. Prince for an after hours occasion probably internet hosting “many artists, widespread athletes and public figures.”
Davenport is reportedly looking for “compensatory, particular, financial, consequential, normal, punitive, and all different damages permissible underneath Texas regulation” for the wrongful demise of her son, in addition to lack of incomes capability, psychological anguish, and different elements. In keeping with Billboard, she is looking for no less than $1 million.
Takeoff was killed within the early hours of November 1, 2022. His demise was formally dominated as a murder because of the nature of his gunshot wounds. He was 28 years previous.
Final December, a person named Patrick Xavier Clark was arrested for Takeoff’s homicide. He was launched on $1 million bond in early January, however was formally charged with murder final month.
