Grim details continue to emerge from Pop Smoke’s tragic murder. An explanation as to how exactly LAPD tracked down his killers and connected the dots to make four arrests surfaced during last week’s preliminary court hearing.
20-year-old Corey Walker has been the main suspect named in the case with Walker being the only assailant of legal age and not considered a minor. According to the Los Angeles Times, following his arrest, Corey Walker confessed all about the night he allegedly plotted to rob and end up killing Pop Smoke to his cellmate, who was actually planted by law enforcement to extract information.
Detective Carlos Camacho testified that Walker boasted about being a member of the Hoover Criminals gang in Los Angeles and got the drop on Pop Smoke’s address on that harrowing February 18, 2020 night from an Instagram Story Pop posted featuring his Airbnb digs on an Amiri shopping bag.
Walker allegedly told the planted cellmate that he drove by Pop’s rental Los Angeles mansion in the day to scope out the scene before returning with a group of “youngsters” to execute the robbery hit. The 20-year-old claims to have armed two of the four teenagers before breaching Pop’s home around 4 a.m. once they knew Pop was just with a woman in his bedroom and there was another man somewhere else in the house.
Walker’s lawyer, Christopher Darden (yes, from the O.J. Simpson trial), is claiming that his client stayed in the car while the shooting took place and maintains that he told the minors not to use his firearms inside. Law enforcement believes a 15-year-old ultimately pulled the trigger multiple times to kill Pop.
“Part of the irony in all of this is the person who shot him probably won’t stay in prison a day beyond 25,” Darden told the court. “And my client stands to spend the rest of his life in prison. I think that’s fundamentally wrong.”
LAPD Reveals Grim Pop Smoke Murder Details As Case Preps For Trial
Camacho and another detective named Frank Flores explained that they executed a warrant once they discovered a Google account attached to Walker that searched the address Pop Smoke was staying at and for the “Rolex oyster perpetual datejust” watch they took from the “Dior” rapper and sold for $2,000.
One suspect remains at large. Walker was charged with murder and robbery and could face the death penalty if convicted.
NYC Crip gets robbed and killed by Hoover Crips due to dumbass inadvertently displaying their Airbnb address and rolling with virtually no security and fake friends. Okay now that story actually makes sense. Should’ve at least either had your own security, check in with some from there prior to visit and get some oversight and guaranteed protection, and surrounded himself with people who actually cared about his well-being instead of just using him cuz to me all that happened during and after the shooting sounds like a set up definitely to me.
Crab everywhr. Give pop some justice. Dem kids should stay put till its 18, and get there ass whooped
Smh, so leaving the e in everywhere and speling them instead of dem, and using there instead of their, is super ganster, and would make you look weak and soft if you spelled it the right way huh? Lol …you are a disgrace
these modern day “tough guys” ain’t too bright. they make criminals of the pass look like geniuses. gon get in a jail cell knowing they watching your move, do yall not watching Investigation discovery hehe
tough guys.? they 15 and 20 yearolds LOOOOOL L to Pops
gmail and pillow talkin to new cellys is not gangsta oh well 59 hoova OG…..
15 years old a killer…what the actual F. When I was 15 I was just going to school (not the brightest) play video games and hang with the other children, I didn’t even know what violence is. The society is messed up. It ain’t necessarily the children’s fault, it’s the people around them that are brain-washing