FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2020, aerial image taken from video provided by Fox11 News KTTV-TV shows the Hollywood Hills home, center, where New York rapper Pop Smoke, 20, was shot and killed early Feb. 19, in Los Angeles. One of four men charged in the killing of the rapper during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2020, aerial image taken from video provided by Fox11 News KTTV-TV shows the Hollywood Hills home, center, where New York rapper Pop Smoke, 20, was shot and killed early Feb. 19, in Los Angeles. One of four men charged in the killing of the rapper during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
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 man, who was 17 when the killing occurred, also pleaded guilty in Inglewood juvenile court to home invasion robbery. He was sentenced to four years and two months in a juvenile facility.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.
The robbers knew the address because a day earlier, Jackson had posted a photograph on social media of a gift bag he had received and the address was on a label, authorities said.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 the
Voluntary manslaughter? Is that an insult to the rappers family or proof L.A. prosecutor’s office couldn’t indict a ham sandwich so had to plead down to nothing?
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