Takeoff.Photo:Steve Granitz/WireImage
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The mother oflate Migos rapper Takeoffhas filed a $1 million negligence lawsuit against the Houston venue at which her son was fatally shot last year.
Titania Davenport alleges in a petition filed Thursday that the owners and operators of 810 Billiards & Bowling “negligently failed to provide proper and adequate security” for an event the night of Oct. 31, 2022, despite knowing that high-profile celebrities, including her son, would be in attendance.
Takeoff (real name Kirsnick Khari Ball) wasshot and killed early the next morningwhile at a private party at the venue with hisfellow Migos rapper Quavo, who was not injured.
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The petition says that toward the end of the night, “one group of attendees began verbally, physically and openly causing trouble… trying to intimidate Mr. Ball and his group of friends.”
“Mr. Ball sustained pre-death injuries, conscious pain and suffering, and ultimately became aware of his impending death,” the petition says. “[He] exercised ordinary care and diligence and was a completely innocent victim free of any contribution to his death.”
Representatives for the defendants did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
The petition states that the defendants had a duty to keep him and his fellow attendees safe, and failed to do so, as there was allegedly no security screening upon entry, no after-hours controls or security measures and enforcement of policies that banned firearms on the premises.
Takeoff.Aaron J. Thornton/WireImage
Davenport alleges that she’s experienced “mental anguish” following Takeoff’s death, and is seeking compensation for the “loss of companionship and society…including the loss of positive benefits flowing from the love, companionship, comfort and society that would have been received from [Takeoff] had he lived. These damages were the direct and proximate cause of the incident made the basis of this lawsuit.”
source: people.com
