20-yr-old US rapper Pop Smoke shot dead in home invasion

US rapper Pop Smoke was shot dead during a home invasion at California's Hollywood Hills on Wednesday, police said. American record label Republic Records tweeted, "We're devastated by...loss of Pop Smoke [he was 20]....our prayers...go out to his family...as we mourn this loss." Reportedly several masked men, one armed with a gun, broke into Smoke's house and shot him dead.