Project Pat’s son shot and killed in Memphis
Hip-hop star Project Pat’s son has reportedly been shot and killed in his hometown of Memphis. Patrick Houston, Jr, who was 22 years old, was involved in a shooting that took place near Charjean Park in the area of Ketchum Road and Long Street on January 10th.
Police officers responded to the incident at 1:15pm and located a male victim with an apparent gunshot wound. The victim was pronounced deceased at the scene of the crime, which was being treated as an ongoing investigation.
According to People, the Memphis Police Department confirmed that Houston, Jr was the person who had passed away. A celebration of life has been organised for January 25th at the M.J. Edwards Funeral Home Stage Road Chapel, with his committal service taking place the same day at Memphis Memory Gardens.
51-year-old Pat is a prominent Memphis rapper and the older brother of Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J. He was a member of the group The Kaze and released his debut solo album, Ghetty Green, in 1999. His last album, M.O.B., dropped in 2017. He was featured on Drake’s ‘Knife Talk’ alongside 21 Savage in 2021, which appeared on Drizzy’s Certified Lover Boy album.
During an interview with Vice in 2014, Pat spoke about the difficulties of growing up in Memphis. “Like any other inner urban city, just like Baltimore, just like St. Louis or DC or Detroit is—drug infested,” he said.
“The project I grew up in is abandoned. I just stayed focused and got a blessing. It was the ghetto so you know how that goes—not to put the same old sob story out there because everybody always do In the ghetto you got schools, you got everything, you got all the opportunities to make it out.”
He added, “There’s negativity too though and when I say negativity I mean there’s so many people that you see that’s older than you that didn’t make it and its like, ‘Aw man, I’m probably going to end up being like that guy.’ I had a lot of that too, but you know my father, he’s a minister, I did have a daddy in my house, a real father.”