Lil Durk was arrested for murder in Florida

Rapper Lil Durk was arrested in Florida late Thursday (October 24) on federal murder charges, hours after several of his alleged associates were indicted on similar charges for their alleged involvement in a shooting of rapper Quando Rando.

The Chicago rapper (real name Durk Devontay Banks) is being held at the Broward County Jail on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Office, according to Broward Sheriff's Office inmate records. The charges are not yet publicly disclosed in court records, and further details about the case against him are not yet available.

The star's lawyer, Brian Bieber, confirmed this billboard that Durk was in custody and would make his first appearance in federal court in Florida on Friday.

Durk's arrest came hours after Los Angeles federal prosecutors dropped an indictment against several alleged members of Durk's hip-hop group Only the Family (OTF). The five men – Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey and Asa Houston – are charged with murder-for-hire and conspiracy to murder-for-hire.

In the indictment, prosecutors say the five men were behind a 2022 shooting in Los Angeles against Quando Rondo (Tyquian Bowman) that left his cousin dead. They say the shooting was ordered by an unnamed co-conspirator in retaliation for a 2020 shooting in Atlanta in which a Rondo associate allegedly shot and killed Chicago rapper King Von (Dayvon Bennett).

“After [2020] “In the murder, Co-Conspirator 1 made it clear in coded language that Co-Conspirator 1 would pay a bounty or cash reward and/or make a payment to anyone involved in the killing of TB for their role in the murder of DB,” write the prosecutors. using Rondo and Von's initials.

Durk is not charged or mentioned in the earlier case.

King Von, an aspiring rapper in the Chicago drill scene and a childhood friend of Durk, was shot and killed outside an Atlanta nightclub on November 6, 2020, after an argument between two groups led to a brawl in the parking lot. A 22-year-old man named Timothy Leeks, allegedly an associate of Rondo, was arrested days later, but the case was eventually dropped.

Two years later, on August 19, 2022, Rondo and his associate Lul Pab (Saviay'a Robinson) were ambushed by gunmen in their car at a gas station in Los Angeles. Rondo was uninjured, but Robinson later died in hospital.

According to Thursday's indictment, that murder was allegedly committed by OTF members Grant, Wilson and Houston, as well as Jones and Lindsey, who prosecutors say were “members of other gangs in Chicago.” They allege the group “used two vehicles to detect, prosecute and kill tuberculosis – including with a fully automatic firearm – resulting in the death of SR.”

Prosecutors say the group carried out the attack on the orders of the unnamed “Co-Conspirator 1” in retaliation for the earlier assassination of King Von. At some point, this unnamed conspirator allegedly texted another co-conspirator: “Do not book flights under any name associated with me.”

“Co-conspirator 1 would place bounties on individuals who sought to kill Co-conspirator 1 and other OTF members, including tuberculosis,” prosecutors wrote in Thursday’s indictment. “As part of the bounty, co-conspirators…would pay anyone involved in the TB killing and/or reward individuals with lucrative music opportunities at OTF.”

According to prosecutors, the group used “a credit card linked to OTF” to purchase airline tickets for a flight to Los Angeles and to rent a hotel room. Using two cars, including one with fake license plates, the group then chased Rondo's SUV through the city until they reached the gas station.

“Jones and Lindsey, as well as Co-Conspirators 2, used the firearms obtained from Defendant Grant – including the fully automatic firearm – to fire at TB's car, striking and killing SR, who was standing next to TB's car while TB was inside.”

After fleeing the scene, the group later met again at a restaurant where they negotiated payments for the crime, according to prosecutors. Later that day, they allegedly used the same OTF-linked credit card to purchase airline tickets and fly back to Chicago.

All five men named in the indictment were arrested on Thursday in the Chicago area Chicago Tribune. They initially appeared before a federal judge in Illinois, who ordered them held pending further proceedings. However, the case is being heard in federal court in California.