Rapper Lil Durk arrested in murder-for-hire plot targeting Quando Rondo

Rapper Lil Durk has been charged successful a murder-for-hire crippled targeting chap musician Quando Rondo, who was allegedly progressive in nan 2020 execution of King Von.

According to situation records, nan 32-year-old — whose existent sanction is Durk Devontay Banks — was arrested Thursday nighttime and is being held without enslaved astatine Broward County Jail successful Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Hours earlier his arrest, 5 men who allegedly person ties to Durk’s hip-hop group, Only nan Family (OTF), were indicted on national charges successful Los Angeles involving nan aforesaid crippled to execution Rondo, whose existent sanction is Tyquian Terrel Bowman.

Per TMZ, Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey and Asa Houston were charged pinch conspiracy to perpetrate murder-for-hire; committing murder-for-hire resulting successful death; and transportation and discharge of firearms and a machinegun successful nan furtherance of a crime of unit resulting successful death.

In nan indictment, officials declare nan 5 men planned to termination Rondo successful August 2022 arsenic revenge for nan decease of King Von.

Von, who was 26 astatine nan time, was changeable and killed by Quando’s associate Lul Timm.

Prosecutors declare that nan 5 men allegedly utilized a in installments paper associated pinch OTF to acquisition level tickets to Los Angeles successful August 2022 to hunt down Rondo.

Once successful California, Grant allegedly booked a edifice room for nan men to enactment astatine and provided them pinch firearms. He besides allegedly rented cars for them to travel Rondo and his relative Saviay’a Robinson.

While Rondon and Robinson stopped to get gas, Houston allegedly parked successful a adjacent alley earlier Jones, Lindsey and a 3rd unidentified man changeable astatine them.

Rondo, 25, was not injured, but his relative was fatally shot. He was 24.

Once nan shooting was done, nan 5 men met up astatine a edifice to talk astir costs earlier nan aforesaid in installments paper was utilized to book flights backmost to Chicago.

Durk is not named arsenic a suspect successful nan indictment against nan 5 men. He has besides antecedently unopen down claims that OTF is simply a gang.

This is not nan first clip that Lil Durk has been charged successful relationship to a shooting.

In 2019, he faced felony charges complete his alleged relationship to a February shooting.

He surrendered to police in May of that aforesaid twelvemonth and he was charged with criminal effort to perpetrate murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during committee of a felony and pack activity.