Pop Smoke is shot during a home-invasion robbery in the Hollywood Hills
Bashar Jackson is shot multiple times during a home-invasion robbery at a rented house at 2033 Hercules Drive in the Hollywood Hills around 4:30 AM. He dies hours later at Cedars-Sinai. He was 20. Four people — three minors and adult Corey Walker — are arrested; the eventual convictions span 2022-2023.
Why it matters
Pop Smoke's killing arrests, in mid-flight, the most commercially explosive Brooklyn drill career to that point. His first studio album *Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon* — released posthumously in July 2020 — debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200, sells 251,000 first-week units, and spends three of its first four weeks at #1. The Brooklyn drill scene he had been the face of (Fivio Foreign, Sheff G, Lil Tjay, the producer 808Melo) continues but loses its primary commercial breakthrough at the precise moment major-label budgets were turning toward it.
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- B Los Angeles Times — Teen pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Pop Smoke killing Retrieved 2026-05-24.
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