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At 2 a.m., a black BMW rolled past a house the rapper Pop Smoke was renting in the Hollywood Hills.
The driver circled back and stopped. A security camera across the street captured a passenger getting out and sneaking toward the back of the house before returning a minute later. The car sped off.
The budding rap star was a few miles away at a recording studio on Sunset Boulevard. He returned two hours later and again a car pulled up an Infiniti sedan with its headlights off. This time, four people emerged and slipped into the shadows along the side of the house.
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Further details regarding how police were able to track down the suspects involved in the burglary and fatal shooting of Pop Smoke have come to light.
An LAPD detective testified at a preliminary court hearing for 20-year-old Corey Walker, the only adult suspect in the case, last week. It’s already been reported that the 15-year-old in the case confessed to fatally shooting Pop in the early hours of Feb. 19, 2020, but Walker also confessed to a person he believed to be a cellmate.
The 15-year-old, unnamed due to their age, confessed to a cellmate at a juvenile detention center back in May. Just six weeks later, Walker spoke about his involvement with a cellmate who said they were a gang member, the