*It’s like a scene in a movie. One of the teens implicated in the killing of Pop Smoke; 20-year-old Corey Walker‘s cell mate was planted by police. That’s a clever way to get to the truth. Imagine ...

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Pop Smoke’s killer has officially been sentenced to 29 years in prison. For his role in the killing, Rolling Stone reports that Corey Walker pleaded guilty to home invasion robbery with a gun, gang ...

LOS ANGELES — A man charged in the 2020 killing of rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion accepted a plea deal, averting a trial on a murder charge that was to have started ...

Pop Smoke’s mother, Audrey Jackson, is expressing her ongoing grief and loss following Corey Walker’s plea deal in the rapper’s death. Pop Smoke’s mom, Audrey Jackson, has issued a heartbroken ...

The final defendant convicted in the fatal 2020 shooting of Pop Smoke appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Friday and apologized for his role in the rapper’s death before receiving his sentence of 29 ...

The trial date for Corey Walker, the only defendant charged as an adult in the 2020 fatal shooting of Pop Smoke, has been set. According to Rolling Stone, his trial will begin on June 25 in Los ...

Corey Walker, one of the men found guilty in the death of Pop Smoke, has been sentenced to 29 years in prison. Walker was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and home invasion robbery with gun and ...

February 2024 marked the 4-year anniversary of Pop Smoke’s (real name Bashar Barakah Jackson) death. The late “Dior” rapper’s tragic murder hit the rap community hard. Since then, Jackson’s family ...

One of the people charged in the 2020 killing of Pop Smoke has agreed to plead guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter and two counts of robbery, The Associated Press reports. The person, a ...

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The last of Pop Smoke’s killers has been sentenced. According to Rolling Stone, Corey Walker, the sole adult at the time of Pop Smoke’s murder, was sentenced to 29 years in prison for his role in the ...