A new trial date has been set for Pop Smoke’s suspected killer, Corey Walker, after he was unable to reach a plea agreement with the prosecution.
The “Dior” rapper was killed more than four years ago, but the trial for his purported killers has not yet started.
Walker’s lawyer claims that he was unable to reach a plea agreement with the prosecution since he is the only defendant to face an adult trial.
Negotiations failed, Walker’s attorney Deion Benjamin told Rolling Stone. However, there’s still a chance that we may reach a consensus. A few issues need to be resolved. We will proceed with a trial if they are not settled.
On August 6, jury selection for the trial will begin if no plea agreement is reached. It was originally supposed to start this week.
Walker is the lone suspect whose destiny is yet up to the courts.
A 15-year-old earlier acknowledged that, in February 2020, during a home invasion in the Hollywood Hills, he pulled the gun, killing Pop Smoke.
Due to his age, he was tried in juvenile court and acknowledged to having fired a gun during the crime both intentionally and personally. He was also charged with home invasion robbery. It is anticipated that he would remain in a state juvenile facility until he turns 25.
Pop Smoke “lost his life over no good reason,” L.A. County Superior Court Judge J. Christopher Smith informed the defendant and his co-defendant, a 19-year-old.
“It is not your place to take another person’s life. Smith remarked, “You have no right to seize someone else’s property.
The Brooklyn rapper’s companion when he was shot and killed, Amelia Rose, previously gave a graphic description of his death in an episode of WE tv’s Hip Hop Homicides.
Rose recalled Pop going upstairs to use the restroom in the mansion he was renting at the time, she told host Van Lathan. She was terrified a few moments later when burglars stormed into the house and pointed a gun in her direction.
Dad mentioned he was heading upstairs. As she started to undress while sitting on the bed, he remarked, “All right, I’ll come back,” she recalled. These were his final remarks before using the restroom.
Rose went on, “It was like a couple seconds and I hear the noise,” describing the sound of a sliding glass door opening into the bedroom on the second floor. “The man with the mask was pointing his gun at me and saying, ‘Look at me,’ you know? I was afraid of his eyes. They dash to the bathroom. Mom exclaimed, “What?”
Rose continued, recalling with tears in her eyes how the armed invaders had pulled Pop Smoke out of the bathroom, and that there had been a brief disturbance before she heard the fatal gunshot.
