Rapper Lil Durk faces murder-for-hire charges in Florida – NBC 6 South Florida

Well-liked Chicago rapper Lil Durk is behind bars at Broward County jail on federal murder-for-hire fees.

The 32-year-old, whose authorized identify is Durk Banks, is dealing with two counts of conspiracy to commit homicide for rent leading to loss of life. He appeared in federal court docket in Miami on Friday, the place his household declined to remark to NBC6.

Jail information present the rapper was arrested by U.S. Marshals between late Thursday and early Friday as he was making an attempt to flee the nation.

The U.S. Marshals and reps for Lil Durk didn’t instantly reply to NBC Information’ request for remark.

In accordance with Billboard, the rapper’s collaborations with Drake on “Snigger Now Cry Later” and J. Cole on “All My Life” peaked at No. 2 on their chart. He gained a Grammy for the previous music for Finest Melodic Rap Efficiency in 2024.

Although particulars of the alleged murder-for-hire plot haven’t but been launched, the arrest comes as 5 individuals with ties to his hip hop collective, “Solely the Household,” had been arrested on a federal indictment in California, on accusations of committing a murder-for-hire leading to loss of life. In accordance with the indictment, the lads allegedly put a success out on rapper Quando Rondo in retaliation for the taking pictures loss of life of one other Chicago rapper, King Von, who was a part of OTF and collaborated with Lil Durk on music.

The grand jury fees OTF members Kavon London Grant, often known as “Cuz” or “Vonnie,” Deandre Dontrell Wilson, often known as “DeDe,” Asa Houston, often known as “Boogie,” and 5 unnamed conspirators, in addition to Keith Jones, often known as “Flacka,” and David Brian Lindsey, often known as “Browneyez,” who’re described as “members of different gangs in Chicago.”

Banks is the founding father of the OTF, which produces hip hop music from Chicago-area artists.

In accordance with the indictment, on Nov. 6, 2020, an OTF member described solely as “D.B.” was in a “bodily altercation with T.B. at a nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout the battle, an affiliate of T.B. pulled out a gun and shot D.B. a number of occasions, killing him.” Whereas authorities didn’t identify D.B. within the indictment, rapper King Von, whose actual identify was Dayvon Bennett, was killed on that very same date, NBC Information reported on the time. One other man, 34-year-old Mark Blakely, was additionally killed within the shootout and 4 others had been injured, The Atlanta Journal Structure reported.

After D.B.’s homicide, somebody described as “co-conspirator 1” used coded language to clarify that they might “pay a bounty or financial reward, and/or make cost to anybody who took half in killing T.B. for his function in D.B.’s homicide.”

Then, on Aug. 18, 2022, upon studying that T.B. was staying at a Los Angeles lodge, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey, Houston, Grant and co-conspirator 2 traveled to California from Illinois to “observe, stalk, and try to kill T.B. by gunfire — together with with a completely computerized firearm.”

The boys tracked T.B.’s black Escalade to a fuel station on Beverly Boulevard and fired a number of rounds into the SUV — ensuing within the loss of life of S.R., a passenger in T.B.’s automobile, the paperwork stated.

The indictment for the 5 males is on fees of conspiracy and using interstate amenities to commit homicide for rent leading to loss of life, use carry and discharge of firearms and machine-gun, possession of such firearms in furtherance of a criminal offense of violence leading to loss of life, possession of a machine gun and legal forfeiture. 

The paperwork stated Wilson paid the bounty reward to the co-conspirators.

It’s not instantly clear if the lads have retained attorneys.