Rapper Lil Durk hit with 2 new felony charges in murder-for-hire, facing life in prison

Grammy victor Lil Durk has been charged with 2 caller felonies successful a 2022 murder-for-hire crippled intended to termination rival rapper Quando Rondo, for which he was arrested past month.

If convicted, he’s facing a statutory maximum condemnation of beingness successful national prison.

A superseding national expansive assemblage indictment has charged the 32-year-old rapper, existent sanction Durk Banks, with 1 number of conspiracy and 1 number of utilizing interstate facilities to perpetrate murder-for-hire resulting successful death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced Friday.

Durk is besides charged with 1 number of using, carrying and discharging firearms and a instrumentality gun, arsenic good arsenic possession of those firearms “in furtherance of a transgression of unit resulting successful death.”

The “When We Shoot” rapper is accused of orchestrating the attempted assassination of Quando Rondo astatine a state presumption successful Los Angeles successful August 2022. Though Rondo survived the shooting, his cousin, 24-year-old Saviay’a Robinson, was killed.

The shooting has been described by the feds arsenic an attempted revenge killing. Rondo is believed to person been progressive successful a 2020 shooting successful Atlanta that killed 3 men, including up-and-coming rapper King Von, a subordinate of Durk’s Chicago-based hip-hop collective, Only the Family (OTF).

Durk was taken into custody past period successful Miami arsenic helium attempted to fly the state connected a backstage formation to Italy, according to FBI Agent Sarah Corcoran. Earlier successful the day, 5 different members of OTF — Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey, and Asa Houston — were arrested successful Chicago for their engagement successful the murder-for-hire astatine the absorption of Durk, Corcoran said.

According to an earlier affidavit, those men traveled to California to transportation retired the deed and were provided with vehicles and guns — each paid for by Durk.

The rapper has since been added arsenic the pb suspect connected past month’s indictment charging each six men successful transportation with the murder, nary of whom person yet to participate a plea. They’re expected to beryllium arraigned successful Los Angeles successful the coming weeks.

Prior to his arrest, Durk had been honored by the Chicago suburb of Broadview, which had teamed up with the rapper’s nonprofit, Neighborhood Heroes Foundation.

On the time his apprehension became public, Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson announced the colony was cutting ties with the younker enactment and was “withdrawing our honorary ‘key to the village’ granted to Durk” a week earlier.