18-year-old confesses to fatally shooting Pop Smoke
nme.comPop Smoke during a home invasion in 2020.The man, whose identity has been withheld by a court order due to him being a juvenile at the time of the incident, also confessed to other charges for home invasion robbery.
He was charged in juvenile court and, according to the Los Angeles Times, is expected to be held in a state juvenile facility until he is 25 years old.The confession comes after a 20-year-old man who had also been charged over the shooting pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in April.
As he was a 17-year-old minor at the time of the 2020 shooting, the man also faced juvenile court in Inglewood, and was sentenced to four years and two months in a juvenile facility.Two other men, Keandre Rodgers and Corey Walker, are still facing murder charges in the case.
If convicted, they could face the death penalty. Five people in total were charged in July 2020 in relation to the incident.
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