Rapper Pop Smoke Shot To Death In Hollywood Hills Home Invasion

LIVE FROM THE CBS BROADCAST CENTER IN LOS ANGELES THIS IS "CBS 2 NEWS" AT 11:00 A.M. DEMARCO: WE ARE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS. WRAP SNOW ON THE RISE. HE WAS KILLED DURING A HOME INVASION DURING THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS THIS MORNING. POLICE ARE SHOOTING -- SEARCHING FOR THE SHOOTER. JASMINE: POP SMOKE WAS KNOWN BY SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN THE BUSINESS LIKE NIKKI MÉNAGE AND 50-CENT. HIS MURDER HAS STUNNED FANS EVERYWHERE. DEMARCO: POLICE SAY SUSPECTS BROKE INTO HIS HOME AND SHOT HIM. THE HOME IS ON HERCULES DRIVE IN HOLLYWOOD HILLS. GOOD MORNING FANS ARE STARTING TO SHOW UP TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS POLICE STILL DON'T KNOW THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE SHOOTING WHETHER IT WAS AN ATTEMPTED ROBBERY OR SOMETHING ELSE. THEY ARE STILL OUT HERE INVESTIGATING AND SEARCHING FOR SUSPECTS. POP SMOKE WAS A RAPPER WHO SEEM TO BE ON THE RISE. THE 20-YEAR-OLD SEEN IN THIS RECENT VIDEO WAS JUST ABOUT TO HAVE OUT ONTO HER BUT THIS MORNING FELLOW MUSICIANS LIKE CHANCE THE WRAPPER ARE SENDING OUT CAN STOLEN SINCE. POLICE ARE SAYING RIGHT NOW IS THAT THEY GOT A 911 CALL JUST BEFORE 5:00 A.M. THEY STAYED AT THEIR FRIEND'S HOME. IT WAS BEING BROKEN INTO BY MULTIPLE SUSPECTS. WHEN POLICE ARRIVED AT THE HOME THEY DETAINED SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO TURNED OUT TO BE WITNESSES. THOSE MEN SAY THEY WERE BETWEEN TWO AND SIX SUSPECTS AT LEAST ONE WAS WEARING A MASK. INVESTIGATORS DON'T KNOW IF THE HOME OR THE PEOPLE INSIDE WERE BEING TARGETED BUT WE STRODE POLICE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS THAT WERE POSING IN FRONT OF THE HOME YESTERDAY. IT LOOKS LIKE STACKS OF MONEY BEHIND THEM. SHE CONFIRMED SHE HAD RENTED THE PROPERTY OUT. NEIGHBORS SAY THEY HAD BEEN FRUSTRATED BY THE CONSTANT RENTERS. THEY CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF WHO SHOULD AND SHOULD BE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

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Keywords: CBS 2 News Morning, Pop Smoke, rapper shot dead Hollywood Hills, rapper Pop Smoke killed Hollywood Hills

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Length: 2min 35sec (155 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 19 2020