Lil Durk Arrested for Murder-for-Hire Plot

Chicago rapper Lil Durk He was arrested Thursday night in Florida on murder-for-hire charges. The 32-year-old man was held overnight in Broward County and is currently being held without bail, according to booking records.

NBC News Five people affiliated with Lil Durk’s hip-hop collective “Only the Family” have been arrested on a federal indictment in California, police said. Lil Durk founded the collective to sell hip-hop music primarily from Chicago artists. The individuals are accused of committing murder-for-hire resulting in death. It was alleged that the murder-for-hire was committed in revenge for the death of another group member. OTF members Kavon London Grant (aka Cuz or Vonnie), Deandre Dontrell Wilson (DeDe), and Asa Houston (Boogie) are alleged OTF members who were indicted by a grand jury for their involvement in the murder early last week. As for members Keith Jones (Flacka) and David Brian Lindsey (Browneez), both are said to have ties to gangs in Chicago.

The indictment against the five men is said to charge them with conspiracy and using interstate facilities to commit murder-for-hire resulting in death. They are also charged with using and discharging firearms and machine guns, possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death, possession of a machine gun, and forfeiture. The pricing document states that the event starts in 2020. Specifically, on November 6, 2020, a senior OTF member with the initials “DB” got into a physical altercation with another individual with the initials “TB.” This incident took place in an Atlanta nightclub where, during the fight, one of TB’s partners pulled out a gun and shot DB multiple times, killing him in the process. While the victim was not listed in the charging document, the death of rapper Dayvon Daquan Bennett aka “King Von” was announced. Taken up again in 2020. The rapper who was fatally shot was a longtime collaborator with Lil Durk and was part of OTF.

The charging document explained that “Co-Conspirator 1…clearly stated in cryptic language” that they would “pay a bounty or monetary reward” in exchange for “a bounty or monetary reward.” The indictment dated August 18, 2022 stated that “the conspirators learned that TB was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles.” Wilson, Jones, Lindsey, and a person identified as “collaborator 2” with Houston had learned of tuberculosis’ location in Los Angeles, and the group had set out from Chicago “with the goal of killing tuberculosis.” Grant also went to Los Angeles that day by private jet. . On August 19, 2022, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey, and Houston and Co-Conspirator 2 traveled in two vehicles “to pursue tuberculosis, pursue and attempt to kill by shooting a weapon, including a fully automatic firearm, resulting in the death of SR.” They did. A passenger in TB’s vehicle. After tracking TB, they drove into the back alley of a gas station so “Jones and Lindsey and Co-Conspirator2 could try to kill TB.” Jones, Lindsey, and Co-Conspirator 2 allegedly fired multiple shots at TB but killed SR instead. Charging documents allege that the group used “interstate and foreign commerce facilities” such as planes, cars, cell phones and the Internet “for the purpose of committing tuberculosis murder.”