Chicago rapper Lil Durk has been arrested on murder-for-hire charges in Florida on Thursday night (October 24).
The 32-year-old Grammy Award-winning rapper was held at Broward County and is currently being held without bail. He was arrested near Miami International Airport.
Durk was charged with conspiracy to use interstate facilities to commit murder-for-hire resulting in the shooting death of Saviay’a Robinson, rival rapper Quando Rondo’s cousin.
The arrest comes a day after five people with ties to Durkio’s Hip-Hop collective, Only The Family (OTF), were reported to have been charged in Chicago in connection with the 2022 shooting that killed Robinson.
Additionally, they have been charged with the use carry and discharge of firearms and machine-gun, possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death, possession of a machine gun and criminal forfeiture.
The murder-for-hire was allegedly done out of revenge for the death of another fellow OTF group member named Dayvon Bennett aka King Von. He was gunned down by Quando’s associate on November 6, 2020, prosecutors allege, after King Von and Quando Rondo got into an altercation outside of an Atlanta nightclub.
OTF members Kavon London Grant (aka Cuz or Vonnie), Deandre Dontrell Wilson (DeDe) and Asa Houston (Boogie), are alleged OTF members that were charged by a grand jury for their involvement in the murder. As for members Keith Jones (Flacka) and David Brian Lindsey (Browneyez), they are both said to be affiliated with gangs in Chicago.
Prosecutors allege that the group used money from Lil Durk and OTF-related finances to carry out the hit.
If convicted, Banks and the five defendants charged in the separate indictment each would face a statutory maximum sentence of life in federal prison.
The FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department are investigating this matter.
Lil Durk was arrested in Florida last night on murder-for-hire charges. pic.twitter.com/vTPqM0wHj0
— Pop Base (@PopBase) October 25, 2024
