Pop Smoke Murder Trial Delayed When Plea Negotiations Fall Apart

Pop Smoke’s homicide trial is reportedly delayed after one in every of his alleged killers could not conform to a plea deal.

Pop Smoke Homicide Trial Delayed

On Friday (June 21), Rolling Stone reported that Pop Smoke’s alleged killer Corey Walker will obtain a brand new trial date after plea deal negotiations fell aside. Jury choice was set to start this week, but when a plea deal cannot be agreed upon, it’ll now start on Aug. 6.

“Negotiations fell by way of. However there’s nonetheless a chance we’ll come to an settlement,” Walker’s lawyer Deion Benjamin advised RS. “Just a few issues have to be ironed out. In the event that they don’t get resolved, we’ll go to trial.”

Walker is the one one to nonetheless face authorized ramifications following Pop Smoke’s homicide in a Hollywood Hills house 4 years in the past. A 15-year-old beforehand confessed to being the set off man throughout a house invasion in February of 2020. He was tried in a juvenile courtroom and can stay at a juvenile detention facility till he is 25.

Moreover, it’s rumored that one other one in every of Smoke’s killers, King Vermont Raskel, was additionally launched this week after serving 4 years in a juvenile facility. This has not been confirmed.

XXL has reached out to Corey Walker’s lawyer for remark.

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Amelia Rose Speaks About Evening Pop Smoke Is Killed

Pop Smoke was shot and killed on Feb. 19, 2020. The trial replace comes after a girl named Amelia Rose, who was with Pop Smoke on the time of his loss of life, spoke concerning the harrowing night time three males broke into the rented Hollywood Hills house again in February.

In an interview with We TV’s Hip Hop Homicides again in 2022, Rose stated she recalled Pop was heading as much as the toilet when the lads broke in and murdered him.

“Pop stated he was going upstairs,” Rose stated. “I’m sitting on the mattress and I’m beginning to take off my garments, and he stated, ‘OK, I’ll come again,’” she recalled. “He was going to the restroom and so these had been his final phrases.”

She stated one of many killers even waved a gun in her face. “This second, it was like a pair seconds and I hear the noise. The man was within the masks and his gun was like… ‘Have a look at me,’ you realize? His eyes made me so scared. They run to the restroom. Pop screamed, ‘What?!'”

Pop Smoke was 20 years outdated on the time of his loss of life.