Trial In Project Pat’s Son’s Killing Pushed Back To December
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The trial in the killing of Project Pat‘s son has been pushed back to December 9, according to Action News 5.
Talia Jones and Jermiesia Franklin face charges in the death of Patrick Houston Jr., who was 21 when he was killed in Memphis. Jones had previously been scheduled to go to trial on September 21.
Jones is charged with facilitation of first-degree murder. Franklin was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder, aggravated robbery and tampering with or fabricating evidence. Prosecutors accused Franklin of shooting Houston and taking his cellphone. Her case was placed in adult court. She was being held on a $5 million bond when the indictment was reported in September. Franklin was 18 at the time of the September report and had been 16 when Houston was killed.
The charges against the women followed a fatal shooting on January 10, 2025. Houston was killed near Ketchum Road and Long Street in Memphis, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Memphis police investigated the killing before Jones was sought on a warrant issued June 27, 2025.
Federal marshals later tracked Jones to Minnesota. The agency’s Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force took on the case and developed leads that she had left Tennessee. Marshals arrested her in Minneapolis on July 15, 2025.
The Marshals Service said Jones fought and resisted during the arrest. Agents subdued her without anyone being injured, according to the agency. She was then held in Minnesota while awaiting extradition to Tennessee.
Houston shared his father’s name. Project Pat, born Patrick Houston Sr., is Juicy J’s older brother and a longtime figure in Memphis Hip-Hop. He delivered the hook on Three 6 Mafia’s 2000 song “Sippin’ on Some Syrup” and later appeared on Drake’s “Knife Talk,” from the 2021 album Certified Lover Boy.
Outside music, the rapper started the Go Foundation in 2021 and has visited prisons as part of his ministry work. His outreach has included the weekly Breakin’ Baggs ministry at 201 Poplar in Memphis. In an AllHipHop interview, he explained that he was a minister and preacher, though he was not an ordained pastor.
