{"id":179372,"date":"2025-08-27T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179372\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:33:14","slug":"comedian-reggie-carroll-who-was-on-tour-with-katt-williams-is-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179372\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Reggie Carroll, who was on tour with Katt Williams, is killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A comedian who was touring with superstar funnyman Katt Williams was fatally shot last week in Mississippi. <\/p>\n

The shooting took place in a building that\u2019s home to a company that bills itself as the official site for Williams merchandise. On Tuesday, the company was given a notice of eviction because of \u201ccriminal activity.\u201d <\/p>\n

On Aug. 20, police in Southaven, Miss., responded to an \u201cisolated shooting\u201d in the area of Burton Lane. Comedian Reggie Carroll was found suffering from gunshot wounds and taken to a hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Despite lifesaving efforts by officers and medical staff, he died of his injuries, police said. He was 52.<\/p>\n

Carroll, who was known for his appearances on the long-running syndicated comedy show \u201cShowtime at the Apollo,\u201d had been traveling with comedian Williams on his spring tour, Heaven on Earth. <\/p>\n

Police have arrested 38-year-old Trenell Marquise Williams in the shooting death. The suspect had been working as a security guard on the tour, according to Fox 13 Memphis<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Onyxx Owll<\/a> LCC on Burton Lane was the home of the clothing line \u201cdesigned for and by the urban street celebrities and famous creatives,\u201d according to its website. The Southaven Police Department posted a \u201c14-day notice to quit for criminal activity\u201d on the building, the Memphis news outlet said. <\/p>\n

The investigation into the shooting death is ongoing. Authorities did not respond immediately Tuesday to The Times\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A comedian who was touring with superstar funnyman Katt Williams was fatally shot last week in Mississippi. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":179373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[9102,101430,1582,276,101429,638,101431,316,101428,2961,224,5337,3577,42228,7207,48858,101,101432,1446,5618],"class_list":{"0":"post-179372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-building","9":"tag-burton-lane","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-comedian-reggie-carroll","13":"tag-company","14":"tag-criminal-activity","15":"tag-home","16":"tag-katt-williams","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-memphis","21":"tag-notice","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-security-guard","24":"tag-shooting","25":"tag-tenn","26":"tag-tour","27":"tag-tuesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115100045170049820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}