Fans of American rapper, Bashar Jackson popularly known as Pop Smoke, who was shot dead after a home invasion Wednesday morning, are wondering if the social media posts he made just hours before his death might have led to the break-in and killing.
The 20-year-old rapper was at a house owned by Teddi Mellencamp in Hollywood Hills, California, on Tuesday night, which would have been clear to anyone watching his Facebook Story.
In addition to posting large amounts of cash, Smoke also filmed himself opening gift bags that showed the address where he was staying.
Additionally, Smoke’s friend Mike Dee posted a photo of the two outside the house, with the numbers of the address clearly visible.
He got the gift bags following his mixtape that hit #7 on the Billboard 200 chart on Tuesday.
Though police have not spoken publicly about a specific motive for the killing, or if there’s any connection between Smoke and his killers, it wouldn’t be unheard of for an eagle-eyed and opportunistic social media user to take information shared online by a celebrity and use it to commit a crime.
When Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris in 2016, she decided to stop posting about her real-time actions, because she realized there could be unintended negative consequences.
