Rapper Pop Smoke is reportedly killed by masked gunmen

Los Angeles police captain Steve Lurie said police responded to an emergency call at a Hollywood Hills home shortly before five o'clock in the morning on Thursday.

“It has also been widely reported that the victim is a music star of some import,” Lurie said.

Law enforcement sources told TMZ that two masked gunmen appear to have broken into the house and killed Pop Smoke, a.k.a.

Bashar Barakah Johnson.

The rapper was 20 years old.