Rapper Lil Durk's mugshot released after arrest in murder-for-hire scheme

Lil Durk has been charged with murder-for-hire in connection with the 2020 murder of aspiring musician King Von in Atlanta, which allegedly targeted fellow rapper Quando Rondo.

US marshals arrested the 32-year-old Chicago rapper, whose real name is Durk Banks, in Florida on Thursday.

He is being held without bail in the Broward County Jail in Florida but is awaiting transfer to federal custody.

Lil Durk founded the label Only the Family (OTF) in 2010. He maintains that OTF is not a gang after charges were filed on October 17 against five men associated with OTF who allegedly attempted to kill Rondo in 2022 over his alleged involvement in the gang's shooting of the rapper King Von in 2020.

The men named in the lawsuit are Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey and Asa Houston. Lil Durk is not named as a defendant in the Oct. 17 lawsuit.

Newsweek has reached out to representatives for Lil Durk for comment.

According to the indictment of NewsweekOfficials allege that people associated with the OTF group used a credit card linked to the organization to book airline tickets to Los Angeles in August 2022 with the intent of locating Rondo.

When they arrived in Los Angeles, Grant is said to have found the group a hotel room and supplied them with firearms. In addition, he is said to have rented two vehicles with which the men followed Rondo and his 24-year-old cousin Saviay'a Robinson.

As Rondo and Robinson stopped at a gas station, Houston, one of the defendants, drove into a nearby alley. At that point, Jones, Lindsey and an unidentified third man allegedly approached him and carried out the shooting.

Rondo was not injured, but Robinson was fatally wounded.

After the shooting, the men allegedly went to a restaurant to discuss pay. Later that day, a credit card linked to OTF was reportedly used to purchase airline tickets back to Chicago for Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston.

Who is Lil Durk?

Lil Durk rose to prominence with his drill style of music. He began his music career in the early 2010s and became famous primarily for his mixtapes Life is no joke (2012) and Signed on the street (2013).

In 2015, Durk signed with Def Jam Recordings and released his debut studio album “ Remember my name. His career continued to grow with subsequent projects such as: Lil Durk 2X (2016) and Signed to Streets 3. (2018).

However, his big break came in the late 2010s, especially after collaborating with major artists like Drake Laugh now, cry later (2020), which gained him mainstream attention. In the following years, Durk released successful albums including The voice (2020) and 7220 (2022), cementing his place in mainstream hip-hop.

This year, Lil Durk won the Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance for his song “All My Life.”

Lil Durk's history of legal troubles

In a separate lawsuit filed earlier this month, Lil Durk is accused of being involved in the August 2020 gang shooting that killed rapper FBG Duck.

FBG Duck, whose real name was Carlton Weekly, was shot dead by a group of masked men on the Gold Coast as he waited to enter the Dolce & Gabbana store.

In May 2019, Lil Durk released the song “Turn Myself In” before turning himself in to police for his alleged connection to a February 2019 shooting.

Lil Durk was charged with five felonies: criminal attempt to murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and gang activity.

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