Lil Durk has been linked to a different homicide, in accordance with the Chicago Tribune. The Chi-City rapper, who’s already dealing with murder-for-hire prices in Los Angeles, now stands accused of the 2022 capturing of an alleged gang chief outdoors a neighborhood heart on the Far South Facet of Chicago.
The warrant software was filed in April 2023 however wasn’t unsealed till Wednesday (December 11) forward of Durk’s scheduled Thursday (December 12) detention listening to for the opposite case. Lil Durk was arrested and charged final month with funding a murder-for-hire plot to actual revenge for the 2020 killing of King Von in Atlanta.
The newly unsealed submitting in U.S. District Court docket in Chicago claims Durk was behind the January 27, 2022 killing of Stephon Mack, who was fatally shot after he exited the Youth Peace Middle. The FBI reported Mack was the chief of the Smashville faction of the Gangster Disciples on the time. The warrant states Durk’s brother, Dontay Banks, was killed outdoors a nightclub in south suburban Harvey in 2021. One other Gangster Disciples faction with ties to Smashville dedicated the homicide.
“Lil Durk was and nonetheless is providing cash for individuals to kill these accountable for his brother’s homicide, and extra particularly, providing to pay cash for any Gangster Disciple that’s killed,” a federal agent wrote in April 2023.
Lil Durk hasn’t been charged within the Chicago investigation, which continues to be open and lively.
Final month, Lil Durk appeared in L.A. federal courtroom, the place he pleaded not responsible to conspiracy, murder-for-hire and firearms prices. The decide set Durk’s trial date for January 7, 2025, with a bond listening to scheduled for December 12.
Lil Durk was trying to flee the nation previous to his October 24 arrest. The indictment stated the rapper booked a minimum of three worldwide flights following the murder-for-hire arrests of 5 individuals related to Solely the Household (OTF). It additionally revealed legislation enforcement personnel arrested the 32-year-old upon his arrival at a Miami-area airport.
The FBI apparently realized he’d booked the worldwide flights after Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey and Asa Houston had been taken into custody. Prosecutors allege the boys all have ties to OTF, which Durk shaped in 2010. The 5 males had been indicted on federal prices in Los Angeles for allegedly plotting to kill rapper Quando Rondo, who was concerned in King Von’s homicide.
U.S. Customs and Border Safety alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that Lil Durk had booked two one-way flights to Dubai and Switzerland simply hours earlier than his apprehension. FBI officers later realized Lil Durk had additionally booked a personal aircraft to flee to Italy.
Lil Durk stays in custody. He faces life in jail if convicted.
