Rapper Lil Durk Arrested on Murder-for-Hire Charges

The filing alleged that the target of the attack was intended to be someone named “T.B.” due to his involvement in the 2020 killing of someone named D.B. On the same day of the incident, multiple outlets reported that OTF rapper King Von (real name Dayvon Bennett) was killed outside of an Atlanta nightclub after an altercation with rapper Quando Rondo (real name Tyquian Terrel Bowman) and his associates. At the time, police told NBC News in a statement, “Our investigators believe Mr. Bennett was shot during the initial shootout between the two groups of males, prior to police responding and attempting to stop the shooting.”

E! News has reached out to reps of Banks and has not yet heard back, as well as Broward Country Officials and has not yet heard back. The defendants named in the indictment have not retained counsel.

Tension between the two groups has risen since the 2020 death, which prosecutors allege was the catalyst for the 2022 killing. The suspect in Bennett’s death, who was an associate of Bowman’s according to the indictment, had all charges dropped from the incident last year. 

As the newly unsealed indictment in the S.R. murder case alleges, an unnamed co-conspirator part of OTF stated they “would pay a bounty or monetary reward to anyone who took part in the killing” of T.B. following D.B.’s death. In August 2022, gunmen opened fire on T.B.’s car with him, his sister and S.R. inside, at a gas station in West Hollywood. While he and his sister were uninjured, his cousin was struck multiple times and died from his injuries, according to the documents. Although only initials are used throughout the document, on the same day at the 2022 incident, Bowman was the victim of a shooting where his cousin Lul Pab(Saviay'a Robinson) was killed, the Chicago Tribune reported. 

Prosecutors accused the defendants of using “coded language” to tell their alleged co-conspirators that they would be rewarded for the murder. They also accused the defendants of using OTF resources to facilitate the incident. 

“On August 18, 2022, defendant Wilson recruited defendants Jones and Lindsey to travel to California for the purpose of murdering T.B.,” the indictment reads, “and helped facilitate such travel by, among other things, texting Co-Conspirator 3 biographical information about defendants Jones and Lindsey so that Co-Conspirator 3 could book flights to Southern California."

Just a month before Banks’ arrest, the rapper expressed gratitude for a new chapter in his life and shared that his legal trouble was behind him. Banks was previously charged with attempted murder in connection with a 2019 shooting in Atlanta. Among the charges were aggravated assault, participation in criminal street gang activity, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, as well as possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to an official filing from the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office per Rolling Stone. The charges were dropped in 2022.

“Everybody should get second chances at life,” Banks wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, Sept. 22. “It’s about what you do with it. My background wiped and clean of all cases. I ain’t a felon anymore. Who would have thought? I want to thank everyone who helped push my vision forward. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

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