One of the four men charged with killing drill rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery has pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter. On Thursday, April 6, the unnamed 20-year-old man was sentenced to four years and two months in a Los Angeles juvenile incarceration facility because he was only 17 when the killing occurred back in 2020.
As previously reported by Sis2Sis, Pop Smoke – whose real name is Bashar Barakah Jackson – was killed in February of 2020 at just 20 years old. While staying in a rented Beverly Hills home in Los Angeles for a four-day trip, the New York rapper was attacked while in the shower and was subsequently killed after being beaten with a pistol and shot several times in the back. Authorities were called by a friend of someone associated with the rental house, and the police were informed that there were intruders.
Reports after the incident said that the four intruders learned where Pop Smoke would be staying because the rapper had posted a photo on social media the day before the robbery of a gift bag with the address of the home on the label.
Court records by investigators detailed that the assailants stole a $2,000 diamond-rimmed Rolex watch and a few other valuables from the scene before fleeing.
The now sentenced 20-year-old involved in the murder hasn’t been named; another teenager who was 15 at the time and the one to pistol whip Pop Smoke, 19-year-old Corey Walker and Keandre Rodgers, 18, who were young adults respectively at the time of the crime have also been charged. The judge presiding over the case barred public use of the names of the two minors involved, but the last three assailants are facing murder charges while committing robbery and burglary.
The judge has barred the public use of his name because he was a minor at the time of the shooting.
The three remaining assailants have a pretrial hearing date set for May 5 in a LA courthouse.
