Lil Durk is at present being held in Los Angeles in connection to a murder-for-hire plot sparked by the demise of fellow Chicago artist King Von in Atlanta. Lil Durk was denied bond this week and is now being linked to a different homicide case in his hometown the place officers say he gave orders for one more killing within the metropolis.
The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Instances each report that Lil Durk, 32, was at a detention listening to on Thursday (Dec. 12) which was attended by over two dozen of Durk’s supporters, together with Sony Music representatives. U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Patricia Donahue stated that because of the exhibiting of assist for Durk and citing state prosecutors, he’s an individual of serious affect and a flight threat.
The attorneys for Durk, actual identify Durk Devontay Banks, put collectively an in depth bond package deal that included two houses in Georgia and $1 million from Sony Music together with guarantees of twenty-four-hour safety to maintain Durk each secure and on schedule.
Assistant U.S. Atty. Ian Yanniello pointed to the over 30 people contained in the courtroom as an indication of the ability Durk has and will wield if he’s launched on bond.
“This case is about how he used that energy and used that affect and the way he used these assets to advertise and perpetuate violence with lethal consequence,” Yanniello stated.
With this setback, Durk’s attorneys are promising to work on behalf of their shopper to get him out on bond.
‘We have been clearly upset, however will proceed to battle on,” Jonathan Brayman stated to the Chicago Tribune. “Mr. Banks stays assured and optimistic concerning the future. He deeply appreciates the outpouring of affection and assist he has felt since his arrest.”
As this case unfolded, again in Chicago, Lil Durk is now linked to the 2022 taking pictures demise of an alleged chief of a infamous gang faction within the metropolis’s Far South Facet part.
A newly unsealed submitting from the U.S. District Courtroom in Chicago asserts that Durk was the mastermind of the Jan. 2022 taking pictures demise of Stephon Mack, who was gunned down whereas leaving the Youth Peace Middle of Roseland. FBI officers say Mack was the alleged chief of the Smashville faction of the broader Gangster Disciples gang community.
In response to the submitting, Durk’s brother, Dontay “DThang” Banks, was shot and killed exterior the now-closed Membership O in Harvey, a suburb of Chicago, in 2021. Primarily based on the submitting, a Gangster Disciples member who was reportedly linked to Smashville carried out the killing of DThang. In 2023, a federal agent wrote in a press release that Durk was providing a money reward to anybody who may find his brother’s killers.
Lil Durk is alleged to have ordered a cross-country hit on rival Quando Rondo after an affiliate of Rondo shot and killed King Von. In retaliation, investigators consider Durk ordered members of his crew to take out Rondo however as an alternative ended up killing Rondo’s cousin, Lul Pab in Los Angeles.
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