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Rapper Project Pat performs throughout halftime on the 2025 Southwestern Athletic Conference males’s basketball match championship

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A lady has been charged in connection to the homicide of Patrick Houston Jr., Memphis rap legend Project 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 Road and Long Street in Memphis. The circumstances surrounding his dying are nonetheless unknown to most people.

According to the U.S. Marshals, a warrant was issued for Jones’ arrest on June 27 after an investigation by the Memphis Police Department. Reportedly, “She did not go into custody quietly,” however however 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. However, according 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 bought right into a bodily combat. Jones allegedly instructed police that her girlfriend wielded a hammer whereas she picked up a knife in self-defense, slicing her personal hand within the course of. Though the home violence prices have been dismissed, Jones failed to seem in court docket for the shoplifting case, inflicting a bench warrant to be issued for her arrest.

Jones will probably be extradited to Tennessee, based on the U.S. Marshals.

Project Pat is the older brother of Juicy J, a co-founder of Three 6 Mafia.