Perhaps don’t count on any new music from rapper Lil Durk anytime quickly. Or any live performance appearances, for that matter.
On Thursday, the Chicago artist was arrested by U.S. Marshals and booked right into a Florida jail on murder-for-hire fees, in keeping with WGNTV. Earlier the identical day, 5 members of Solely the Household (OTF), Durk’s crew, have been indicted on federal fees associated to a plan to kill rapper Quando Rondo in August 2022.
Born Durk Banks, the “All My Life” artist’s first look in federal court docket might be on Friday in Miami. Extra from the Chicago Solar-Instances:
The indictment was unsealed Thursday within the U.S. Central District Courtroom of California. It fees Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey and Asa Houston with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire leading to demise, committing murder-for-hire involving a demise and use of a machine gun in a violent crime leading to demise.
Following the deadly capturing of Chicago rapper King Von in November 2022, a “co-conspirator,” who was unnamed within the indictment, allegedly supplied fee and future musical alternatives with OTF to anybody who was in a position to efficiently kill Quando Rondo, who’s from Atlanta, the place King Von was fatally shot.
The indictment claims that in August 2022, Wilson recruited Jones, Linsdey, and Houston to come back to California after studying that Rondo was staying at a lodge in Los Angeles. Grant, the fifth man who was indicted Thursday, allegedly offered the firearms and on August 18, the group waited outdoors of Rondo’s lodge till he got here out.
In line with the Solar-Instances, they allegedly adopted Rondo, who was a passenger in one other automobile, as he traveled across the metropolis to go to a number of shops. When Rondo’s automobile stopped at a fuel station, three of the conspirators acquired out of their automobile and fired a number of photographs on the automobile Rondo was in.
Though Rondo was not hit, his cousin, 24-year-old Saviay’a Robinson, was shot to demise.
Durk, 32, is among the many pioneers of the Chicago-originated “Drill” rap subgenre. Drill is understood for its exceedingly blurry strains between gang-affiliated violent lyrics and precise gang avenue violence.
