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Pop Smoke‘s murder in 2020 has been sentenced to 29 years in prison.Pop Smoke – real name Bashar Jackson – was killed in a rented Hollywood Hills home during a home-invasion robbery in February 2020. He was 20 years old.

Pop Smoke is facing up to 29 years in prison after accepting a plea deal.Corey Walker, 24, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in court today (February 5) and two counts of home-invasion robbery for his role in the 2020 killing of the New York-based rapper.Walker had initially been charged with murder and could have faced up to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He now faces up to 29 years in state prison when he is sentenced on February 21, according to CBS News.He was one of four people charged in connection with the killing which happened at a rented Hollywood Hills home during a home-invasion robbery in February 2020.

Pop Smoke during a home invasion in 2020.The man, whose identity has been withheld by a court order due to him being a juvenile at the time of the incident, also confessed to other charges for home invasion robbery. He was charged in juvenile court and, according to the Los Angeles Times, is expected to be held in a state juvenile facility until he is 25 years old.The confession comes after a 20-year-old man who had also been charged over the shooting pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in April. As he was a 17-year-old minor at the time of the 2020 shooting, the man also faced juvenile court in Inglewood, and was sentenced to four years and two months in a juvenile facility.Two other men, Keandre Rodgers and Corey Walker, are still facing murder charges in the case.

Pop Smoke.The man, whose name was withheld because he was a 17-year-old minor at the time of the rapper’s death, also pleaded guilty in Inglewood juvenile court to home invasion robbery yesterday (April 6), reports the Associated Press.He was sentenced to four years and two months in a juvenile facility.According to the Los Angeles Times, the defendant was not given credit for the time he had already served at a juvenile detention centre since his arrest following Pop Smoke’s murder.Three more men – Corey Walker, Keandre Rodgers, and one man, whose name is being withheld because he was 15-years-old at the time of the shooting – still face charges of murder over the rapper, who was killed in his rented Hollywood Hills during a home-invasion robbery in February 2020. He was 20 years old.The group allegedly invaded the rapper’s Airbnb rental in Los Angeles with the aim of stealing his diamond-studded Rolex watch and Cuban link chain.

One of the four men charged in the death of Bashar Barakah Jackson a.k.a. Pop Smoke pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and home invasion robbery on Thursday (April 6), Billboard reports.

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.

On February 19 2020, the music industry lost a rising star after Pop Smoke was shot to death in a home invasion at a rented mansion in the Hollywood Hills.