Lil Durk arrested in connection to murder-for-hire plot
Lil Durk has been arrested in Florida on expenses linked to a suspected murder-for-hire plot.
The Chicago-born rapper, actual title Durk Devontay Banks, was apprehended on Thursday (October 24) and is being held in a Broward County, Florida jail, as reported by USA Today.
The arrest got here hours after 5 different folks have been indicted in Los Angeles with federal murder-for-hire expenses for the alleged focusing on of rapper Quando Rondo (Tyquian Bowman), which authorities imagine might have been in retaliation for the killing of Chicago rapper King Von in 2020.
The 5 folks – Kavon London ‘Vonnie’ Grant, DeAndre Dontrell ‘DeDe’ Wilson, Keith ‘Flacka’ Jones, David Brian ‘Browneyez’ Lindsey and Asa ‘Boogie’ Houston – are all allegedly related to Lil Durk’s Solely The Household (OTF) rap collective.
Federal prosecutors have now unsealed the costs towards Lil Durk, which declare that he ordered the homicide of Quando Rondo in a failed 2022 taking pictures (by way of Billboard). They label OTF as a “hybrid organisation” that capabilities as a prison gang in addition to a musical collective, with the group working “on the route” of Durk.
Neither Lil Durk’s representatives nor these of the 5 others arrested have responded to requests for remark.
King Von was additionally an affiliate of the group, and he and Lil Durk collaborated regularly, with the latter that includes on two tracks on Von’s 2020 debut album ‘Welcome To O’Block’. That album was launched simply days earlier than his loss of life.
The fees state that “Banks put a financial bounty out for a person with whom Banks was feuding named T.B.,” referring to Quando Rondo. “Banks ordered T.B.’s homicide and that the hitmen used Banks and OTF-related funds to hold out the homicide.”
The brand new filings additionally allege that Durk was planning to go away the US for Italy on a non-public jet on the time of his arrest.
Within the aftermath of King Von’s loss of life, Timothy ‘Lul Timm’ Leeks was charged together with his homicide, with prosecutors alleging that he was an “affiliate” of Quando Rondo. Costs towards Leeks have been dropped in 2023.
Prosecutors now imagine the 5 new co-defendants travelled to Los Angeles to attempt to kill Quando Rondo in 2022, however a taking pictures resulted within the loss of life of his cousin Saviay’a ‘Lul Pab’ Robinson as an alternative.