A social media post shows a celebrity dripping in expensive jewelry at a well-known locale. Shortly thereafter, gunman sweep in to forcibly relieve the celebrity of said bling.
It's a story we've heard multiple times over the years, most recently in relation to the fatal shooting of rapper PnB Rock on Monday at Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles in South Los Angeles. The incidents are rare, authorities say, but they're a dramatic reminder that sharing information about yourself online can put you at risk.
We don't know whether PnB Rock (real name: Rakim Allen) was tracked to Roscoe's through social media; we know only that the attack happened a few minutes after his girlfriend made an Instagram post revealing their presence at the restaurant. But the criminals involved in some previous high-profile attacks, such as the one on Kim Kardashian West in Paris six years ago, have admitted that they do, in fact, scour their potential victims' social media posts for information about what they have and where they are.
