Rapper Pop Smoke performs onstage throughout day 2 of the Rolling Loud Competition at Banc of California Stadium on December 15, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. | Supply: Scott Dudelson / Getty
It’s been greater than 4 years since up-and-coming rap star Pop Smoke was murdered during a home robbery within the Hollywood Hills. And now one of many males concerned within the killing will lastly have his day in court docket this summer season.
In accordance with Vulture, a Los Angeles decide has simply set a June 25 trial date for Corey Walker, who’s accused of participating within the theft that led to the capturing of Pop Smoke (born Bashar Barakah Jackson) on Feb. 19, 2020. Walker, who was 19 years previous on the time, was the one suspect charged as an grownup within the homicide and has pleaded not responsible to 1 depend of homicide and three counts associated to the house theft.
Walker’s protection within the matter is that he wasn’t part of the precise planning of the house theft and was nothing greater than the getaway driver who waited exterior of the house whereas your entire situation unfolded. Prosecutors, then again, have painted Walker because the mastermind within the case and have mentioned as a lot within the prices towards the defendant.
Per Vulture:
Prosecutors argue that Walker “Facilitated the crimes by not solely surveilling the crime scene earlier than the crimes had been dedicated however serving because the researcher, getaway driver, weapons supplier and planner of this house invasion theft.”
The trial date comes nearly a yr after three different minors concerned within the killing settled their circumstances with one pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter, one other confessing to killing the rapper, and the third settling his case at an “undisclosed time.”
Why was Pop Smoke killed?
Earlier than the incident, the rapper confirmed off a couple of presents he had acquired through social media, certainly one of which had the house’s handle printed on it. Moreover, he posted an image on Instagram sitting in a automobile with a buddy, who was holding a big stack of money. The buddy uploaded a separate photograph, which appeared to indicate a portion of the house’s handle, as effectively.
Pop Smoke was solely 20 years previous.
Fellow rappers shortly attributed the lethal capturing to jealousy and envy.
Mockingly, Pop Smoke had additionally spoken about “being extra cautious” after turning into a public determine and amassing a sure stage of fame and notoriety by means of his music. “N***as like us, coming the place we come from, we will’t afford to f**ok up,” he as soon as mentioned throughout an interview with Angie Martinez. “We will’t afford to slide up, make no errors ‘trigger they watching they usually need us to. We received all odds towards us, and faux n***as, they be successful generally. So, should you wanna succeed, you may’t f**ok up. You bought no house for it. We will’t afford it.”
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