The 20-year-old New York rapper, whose legal name is Bashar Barakah Jackson, was killed on Feb. 19, 2020.
Rapper Pop Smoke performs onstage during day 2 of the Rolling Loud Festival on December 15, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.INGLEWOOD, Calif. — One of four men charged in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter.
The 20-year-old New York rapper, whose legal name is Bashar Barakah Jackson, was killed on Feb. 19, 2020, at a rented home where he was staying while on a four-day trip to Los Angeles. A 911 call from a friend of someone in the house reported armed intruders inside the home, police said. Pop Smoke attends the Off-White Menswear Fall/Winter 2020-2021 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 15, 2020 in Paris, France.Jackson was in the shower when masked robbers confronted him. During a struggle, one attacker, who was 15, pistol-whipped the rapper and shot him three times in the back, according to court testimony cited by theThe attackers stole Jackson’s diamond-studded Rolex watch and sold it for $2,000, a detective testified.
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