One of four men charged with the killing of Pop Smoke in 2020 pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
The judge has barred the public use of his name because he was a minor at the time of the shooting.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.
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 The attackers stole Jackson’s diamond-studded Rolex watch and sold it for $2,000, a detective testified.
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