Rapper Lil Durk has been arrested in South Florida in a murder-for-hire plot, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.
Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service, records show.
Banks is accused of being the leader of a Chicago-based rap collective — called Only the Family — that acts as a group of individuals who engage in violence, including murder and assault, at the direction of Banks, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.He is accused of placing a “monetary bounty out for an individual with whom Banks was feuding,” according to the complaint.
Banks was feuding with an individual identified in court documents as T.B. The feud stemmed from a murder that occurred on Nov. 6, 2020, in which “an associate of T.B. shot and killed an OTF rapper named Dayvon Bennett, a.k.a. ‘King Von,'” who was close friends with Banks, the Department of Justice said in a press release.
“In response to Bennett’s murder, Banks allegedly put a bounty on T.B.’s life,” the DOJ said.
Nearly two years later, on Aug. 19, 2022, multiple OTF members allegedly used two vehicles and worked together to “track, stalk and attempt to murder T.B. at a gas station located in Los Angeles,” according to the complaint.
“The co-conspirators fired at least 18 rounds at T.B.’s vehicle, striking and killing S.R. — T.B.’s family member who was traveling with T.B.,” the complaint said.
U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada, whose office is prosecuting the case, said such acts of violent gun crime are “devastating” and “callous.”
“Mr. Banks is charged with orchestrating a cold-blooded murder that resulted in the death of a rival’s family member,” Estrada said in a statement. “Not only that, the shooting occurred in the open, at a gas station at a busy intersection, endangering many others in the area.
