Kirshnik Khari Ball, with the stage name Takeoff, belonged to the style-forming and highly successful hip hop trio Migos from Atlanta.
Large parts of the music world were shocked when the news that he had passed away came on November 1.
He was shot to death outside a bowling alley in Houston in the state of Texas in the United States.
According to the police, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It was after another party had started arguing over a game of dice that the situation degenerated into gunfire.
Takeoff should not have been involved in the altercation.
Two people opened fire and three people were hit by the bullets, Takeoff was the only one who died.
At a press conference on Friday, Houston police said they had arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of murder.
The arrest must have gone smoothly.
Takeoff was honored by fellow artists such as Drake and Justin Bieber at a memorial service in Atlanta last month.