American rapper Takeoff, member of Migos group, shot dead in Houston

The 28 -year -old musician was killed as he spent the evening in a Texan City Bowling club with a member of his group.

Le Monde with AP and AFP

Takeoff, a young rapper 28 -year -old member of the Migos group, was shot in the night of Monday October 31 to Tuesday 1 er November in Houston, Texas, according to information revealed by The American media tmz and confirmed to the Associated Press agency by one of its representatives.

Kirshnik Khari Ball his real name spent the evening in a city bowling club with one of the members of his group when the police were called around 2:30 a.m. . Two other people have been injured and hospitalized.


 Takeoff (left), Quavo and Offset, from the American group Migos, on the red carpet of Nickelode Awards, Los Angeles, March 23, 2019. Takeoff (Left), Quavo and Offset, of the American group Migos, on the red carpet of the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, in Los Angeles , March 23, 2019. Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

born June 18, 1994, Takeoff was part of the rap group Migos with his uncle Quavo and the cousin of the latter Offset, husband of the American rapper Cardi B. from Atlanta in Georgia, the group became known with the title Versace in 2013, remixed among others by the Canadian rapper Drake. But it was in 2016 that the group, known for its hip-hop with trap accents, explodes on the American music scene with their tube Bad and Boujee, with the featuring of Lil Uzi Green, which propels them at the top of American rankings.

The training has many collaborations with big names in the hip-hop and American pop scene such as Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Drake, Justin Bieber or Katy Perry. The members of Migos also played in an episode of the successful television series Atlanta, where they performed fictitious versions of themselves. Takeoff and Quavo had just released their very first album as a duo entitled Only Built for Infinity Links.

/Media reports.