Rapper Offset’s Mom Backs Him Up in Court Battle Over Alleged Assault on Security Guard

His lawyer argued, ‘The residence of someone related to a defendant is not a proper place for substituted service of an individual defendant.”

“Second, in order to use substituted service on an individual defendant, the plaintiff must first attempt to serve the defendant personally at a proper place. The Proof of Service does not show any attempt to first serve Mr. Cephus personally; instead, it demonstrates three attempts to serve Mr. Cephus at his mother’s house, an improper place for service,” he added.

Offset’s mom, Latabia Woodward, filed a declaration in the case. She told the court that she lives at the Snellville, Georgia home where Clark said he served the legal paperwork. She said she lives there with her husband, Offset’s brother Kalen and another party named J’Briana.

“My son [Offset] does not live at the Snellville House. He has never lived there. My son [Offset] does not have his personal mail sent to the Snellville House. We do not receive his personal mail at the Snellville House.“

Kalen Shaw, Offset’s younger brother, filed his own declarations. He said a process server, “told me that he knew [Offset] was not there and he needed someone to sign some papers. He did not explain what the papers were. I was under the impression that a signature was needed for a package. The Process Server then asked if my mother or Michael was there and I told The Process Server they were not home.”

He added, ‘The Process Server handed then me papers and told me to give them to my mom. He did not say what the papers were, nor did he say the papers were for my brother [Offset].”

Clark said “Offset’s attack was then quickly followed by a punch from” another unknown party.

He said other security guards at the event “exacerbated [Clark’s] position by restraining him; allowing Defendants Offset and YRN Murk to continue their physical attacks while Plaintiff was prevented from protecting himself.”