Bashar Barakah Jackson, also known as ‘Pop Smoke’, is killed in Los Angeles, United States. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, inflicted by a teenager during a targeted home invasion that went wrong. Pop Smoke was a rising rapper from Brooklyn, and had just released his second mixtape ‘Meet the Woo 2’. He rented an apartment in the Hollywood Hills a few days prior to his murder for a simple vacation. The day before his homicide, he accidentally leaked his address online via social media, giving the location to it’s murderers, which tragically ended his life the age of 20 years old.