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Rapper Venture Pat performs throughout halftime on the 2025 Southwestern Athletic Convention males’s basketball event championship
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A lady has been charged in connection to the homicide of Patrick Houston Jr., Memphis rap legend Venture Pat’s son. On Tuesday (July 15), U.S. Marshals arrested 19-year-old Talia Jones in Minneapolis. She has been charged with facilitation of first-degree homicide.
Houston Jr. was tragically shot and killed again in January. After officers responded, the late 21-year-old was discovered on Ketchum Street and Lengthy Road in Memphis. The circumstances surrounding his loss of life are nonetheless unknown to most people.
In response to the U.S. Marshals, a warrant was issued for Jones’ arrest on June 27 after an investigation by the Memphis Police Division. Reportedly, “She didn’t go into custody quietly,” however nonetheless was “subdued” with out hurt to anybody else regardless of resisting arrest.
There aren’t any particulars but about how Jones’ was particularly concerned within the homicide of Houston Jr. Nevertheless, in response to WREG, she was arrested in Memphis for shoplifting in late 2024, then charged with aggravated assault throughout a home violence incident per week later, per Shelby County court docket data. For the latter cost, authorities reportedly acknowledged that Jones and her girlfriend obtained right into a bodily struggle. Jones allegedly instructed police that her girlfriend wielded a hammer whereas she picked up a knife in self-defense, chopping her personal hand within the course of. Although the home violence fees have been dismissed, Jones failed to look in court docket for the shoplifting case, inflicting a bench warrant to be issued for her arrest.
Jones shall be extradited to Tennessee, in response to the U.S. Marshals.
Venture Pat is the older brother of Juicy J, a co-founder of Three 6 Mafia.