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Quavo Launches Program to Award $100,000 for Gun Violence Prevention in Atlanta

Quavo's The Rocket Foundation has launched a Spark Grants Program to award $100,000 in an effort to minimize gun violence in Atlanta.

The grants will be handed out to recipients on June 18, which is also the birthday of Quavo’s late nephew and Migos bandmate Takeoff and lands in National Gun Violence Awareness Month. Takeoff (born Kirshnik Khari Ball), 28, was shot and killed early in the morning of Nov. 1, 2022 while attending a private party with Quavo at 810 Billiards & Bowling in downtown Houston. Investigators said shots rang out during the an afterparty attended by several dozen people, with TakeOff pronounced dead at the scene of what the Harris County coroner’s office said was “ penetrating gunshot wounds of head and torso into arm.”

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