Rappers Offset (from left), Quavo and Takeoff of the group Migos seem at a Met gala in 2018. Kirshnik Khari Ball, recognized professionally as Takeoff, died early Tuesday morning after gunshots have been fired at a celebration in Houston.

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Rappers Offset (from left), Quavo and Takeoff of the group Migos seem at a Met gala in 2018. Kirshnik Khari Ball, recognized professionally as Takeoff, died early Tuesday morning after gunshots have been fired at a celebration in Houston.

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Houston police are searching for witnesses in Tuesday’s fatal shooting of 28-year-old rapper Takeoff.

Kirshnik Khari Ball, recognized professionally as Takeoff, rose to stardom as one among three members of Grammy-nominated rap group Migos. Ball died early Tuesday morning after gunshots have been fired following a celebration at a Houston bowling alley.

“I ask you one thing, and I want this to resonate with everybody: What if it was your brother? What if it was your son?” Houston Police Chief Troy Finner mentioned at a Tuesday information convention. “You would want somebody to step up. So please step up and get the information to us so we can bring some closure to this family that is hurting.”

Finner mentioned Ball was the only sufferer of the taking pictures at round 2:30 a.m. after a celebration at 810 Billiards & Bowling, a Houston bowling alley.

The authorities described a chaotic scene. “A lot of the people that there were there fled the scene and did not stick around to give a statement,” police Sgt. Michael Arrington mentioned. He requested witnesses to name the authorities, together with anonymously, and share photographs or movies of the incident.

Two different individuals who attended the celebration — a 23-year-old male, and a 24-year-old feminine who sustained non-life threatening accidents — spoke with police, in line with Arrington.

“We are looking for anything to help us,” he added.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner echoed the police’s need to arrest and press expenses in opposition to the shooter. He mentioned he would proceed his efforts to “make our city a safer city.”

The mayor and the police division issued a joint assertion in May saying the city’s homicide rate was on the decline. At the time, there have been 187 reported homicides in comparison with 192 throughout the identical interval a 12 months earlier.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued a press release on Tuesday following information of Takeoff’s demise, in addition to current shootings in New Jersey, Chicago and Kansas City. Jean-Pierre mentioned that the Biden administration would proceed to work on decreasing gun violence “by calling on Congress to increase community violence intervention funding, ensure universal background checks, and send legislation to [Biden’s] desk banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”

“It is with broken hearts and deep sadness that we mourn the loss of our beloved brother Kirshnik Khari Ball, known to the world as Takeoff,” Migos’ file label, Quality Control, said in a statement. “Senseless violence and a stray bullet has taken another life from this world and we are devastated.”