Pop Smoke's social media posts may have given his killers key clues

Pop Smoke landed in Los Angeles on Monday evening for a five-day work trip that would include studio time and meetings with other artists. The 20-year-old New York rapper then began sharing posts on social media that were followed by thousands of people.

Early Wednesday, a group of people, including one wearing a mask and armed with a handgun, burst into the mansion and repeatedly shot the up-and-coming musician. Security video shows the suspects fleeing the home in the 2000 block of Hercules Drive. A law enforcement source said the rapper and his friends partied at the home well past midnight in the hours before the shooting.

“We are not ruling out a robbery. But that doesn’t appear based on the evidence to be the motive,” Tippet said.Detectives suspect the assailants were probably gang members. Federal officials have tied the rapper, who was born Bashar Barakah Jackson, to a street gang. His gang ties and alleged theft of a Rolls-Royce, for which he had been recently charged by federal prosecutors, are all being examined by investigators.

In his barely year-old career, the rapper helped found a distinctly Brooklyn variant of drill music, a hard-edged, gothic sound that originated in Chicago but that also won popularity on the East Coast and in the U.K. “He was a great guy and had a lot of positive energy,” Mullokandov said. “When we talked business, he was very serious…. We’re all real sad that he’s gone and he had to go that way.”

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