Los Angeles police have revealed that five people have been arrested in connection to the murder of rising rapper Pop Smoke —real name Bashar Jackson— from earlier this year.
As Los Angeles Police Department announced on Thursday, three men and two juvenile males have been apprehended. They are currently in the custody of the Robbery-Homicide Division.
“Early this morning search and arrest warrants were served on several locations in Los Angeles,” Officer Norma Eisenman said in an email to NPR.
Pop Smoke was shot and killed in a suspected home invasion in Hollywood Hills, California. He was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood on the morning of Wednesday, February 19th. He was 20 years old.
Captain Jonathan Tippet, who oversees the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division, believes that social media posts led the suspects to the home of Pop Smoke. The teens, who are reportedly aged 15 and 17, stole items from the home that have not been divulged.
“It’s our belief that (the home-invasion robbery) was based on some of the social media” Tippet told The Associated Press on Thursday. “It’s based on the fact that he was posting his information may have contributed to him knowing where to find him.”
“We believe that it was a robbery. Initially we didn’t really have the evidence but then we discovered some other evidence that showed this was likely a home invasion gone bad,” Tippet continued.
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The musician was a trailblazer amongst the Brooklyn drill scene. The musician released his breakout single ‘Welcome to the Party’ back in 2019. Last year he released his debut mixtape, Meet the Woo, which was followed up by Meet the Woo Vol. 2 — released just days before his death. A posthumous release, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon was released on July 3rd.
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