Quavo’s Assistant Sues Houston Bowling Alley After Being Wounded in Shooting that Claimed the Life of Takeoff

Lawyers for a man wounded in the shooting that claimed the life of Migos rapper Takeoff have filed a lawsuit against the Houston venue where the tragic incident took place.

Joshua Washington, a personal assistant to Quavo, is suing 810 Billards Houston’s owners and property managers, alleging that the venue and its organizers failed to provide sufficient security, screening measures, or emergency assistance both before and after the tragic shooting the left Takeoff dead and others injured.

“810 Houston was warned that they needed extra security. They knew it was a hotspot for violent crime and that an after hours event like this could turn deadly in a second. But they ignored those warnings and now they have blood on their hands,”  said Bakari Sellers, the attorney representing Washington. “This shooting was a tragedy. But it was a preventable tragedy.”

The lawsuit claims that 810 Houston, LVA4 Houston Greenstreet, Lionstone Partners, Midway Companies LLC, and Cushman & Wakefield of Texas did not take adequate security measures, despite giving assurance to attendees about the presence of such safeguards. This purported lack of caution left individuals like Joshua Washington vulnerable and without assistance during the shooting incident.

“They had no properly trained security personnel, adequate signage, lighting, or cameras. They had no screening to keep out weapons. They didn’t even have a working metal detector,” explained Jones. “This was a powder keg of their own making, and individuals like Takeoff and Joshua Washington got caught in the explosion.”

Washington, who was serving as an assistant to Takeoff’s uncle and Migos bandmate Quavo, stated that the absence of the venue’s security became “evidently clear” as soon as gunshots were fired.

“There was no one,” Washington recalled. “The bullets started flying and no one came to help. There were no security guards trying to stop the shooting, no one to help those of us who were hurt, no one at all. They just left us there to die.”

Washington said he was shot in his right side and the bullets missed his colon by inches.