A video falsely linked to the death of rapper Pop Smoke was posted on Twitter. - Steven Ferdman / REX / SIPA

Victim of a burglary, according to the American site TMZ, the rapper Pop Smoke died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles. Bashar Barakah Jackson was 20 years old.

A few hours after the announcement of his death, a video, viewed almost a million times, was posted on Twitter. We see three armed men rushing into what looks like a garage. According to the internet user who posted the images, they show the thieves who entered the rising rap star.

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These images are old, they do not show the house where Pop Smoke was. They come from video surveillance images of a house in Gwinnett County, near Atlanta, in the state of Georgia. The attempted burglary took place in September 2016. Other video clips show a woman chasing burglars with a gun. One of the burglars died from his injuries, reports the Washington post . A man, suspected of having taken part in the burglary, was arrested in April 2018, the police had then announced.

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