Rapper Lil Durk arrested in Florida on murder for hire charge

Rapper Lil Durk was arrested Thursday in Florida by U.S. Marshals on a cost of homicide for rent, in accordance with reserving data.

The 32-year-old artist from Chicago, whose authorized identify is Durk Devontay Banks, was booked into the Broward County jail, and is being held with out bail. 

NBC Information is out to the U.S. Marshals and reps for Lil Durk for remark.

It comes as 5 folks related along with his hip hop collective, “Solely the Household,” had been arrested on a federal indictment in California, accused of committing a homicide for rent that resulted in dying and was allegedly finished in revenge for the dying of a fellow group member.

Three alleged OTF members — Kavon London Grant, referred to as “Cuz” or “Vonnie;” Deandre Dontrell Wilson, referred to as “DeDe;” Asa Houston, referred to as “Boogie” — had been charged by a grand jury for his or her alleged half within the homicide, in accordance with court docket paperwork filed Oct. 17 and unsealed Thursday.

Keith Jones aka “Flacka,” and David Brian Lindsey aka “Browneyez,” each mentioned to be members of different gangs in Chicago, in accordance with the paperwork, had been additionally indicted.

The 5 males couldn’t be instantly reached for remark Friday.

OTF produces and sells hip hop music from artists primarily from Chicago. Lil Durk is the founding father of the collective, in accordance with The Chicago Tribune, and has a 2018 album below the identical title.

The charging doc mentioned that on Nov. 6, 2020 a high-ranking OTF member, described by the initials “D.B.,” acquired right into a bodily altercation with somebody referred to solely as “T.B.” at a nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout that battle, prosecutors say, an affiliate of T.B. pulled out a gun and shot D.B. a number of instances, killing him. 

Although the sufferer was not named within the cost sheet, on that very same date in 2020 NBC Information coated the dying of Dayvon Daquan Bennett, a rapper who glided by “King Von,” in Atlanta who was a part of OTF and collaborated with Lil Durk on music.

After D.B.’s dying an individual, described as a “Co-Conspirator 1,” “made clear, in coded language” that they might “pay a bounty or financial reward” to “anybody who took half in killing T.B. for his position in D.B.’s homicide,” the indictment mentioned. 

Then on August. 18, 2022, the “the conspirators realized that T.B. was staying at a resort in Los Angeles,” the submitting mentioned.

After studying of T.B.’s location, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston and an individual described as “co-conspirator 2” traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles “for the aim of murdering T.B.” That day Grant additionally traveled by personal jet from Florida to Los Angeles, in accordance with the indictment. 

On Aug. 19, 2022, Grant, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston and Co-Conspirator 2 used two autos to “monitor, stalk and try and kill T.B. by gunfire — together with with a totally computerized firearm — ensuing within the dying of S.R.” who was a passenger in T.B.’s car.

The indictment mentioned on that day, Grant, Wilson Jones Lindsey and Houston and Co-Conspirator 2 tracked. T.B.’s black Escalade to a gasoline station on Beverly Boulevard and Houston rove their car to an alley behind the gasoline station and parked in order that “Jones and Lindsey and Co-Conspirator2 might try and homicide T.B.”

Jones, Lindsey and Co-Conspirator 2 allegedly fired a number of pictures at T.B. however ended up killing S.R., and Wilson paid the bounty/financial reward on behalf of co-conspirators, the doc mentioned.

The charging paperwork mentioned the 5 and co-conspirators used “services of interstate and overseas commerce” similar to planes, automobiles, cell telephones and the web, “with intent that the homicide of T.B. be dedicated.”

Grant allegedly procured automobiles, ski masks and firearms that had been used to seek out, monitor and kill T.B., the indictment mentioned.

The indictment for the 5 males is on expenses of conspiracy and the usage of interstate services to commit homicide for rent leading to dying, use carry and discharge of firearms and machine-gun, possession of such firearms in furtherance of a criminal offense of violence leading to dying, possession of a machine gun and felony forfeiture. 

It’s not instantly clear if the boys have retained attorneys.