Lil Durk ordered his OTF associates to homicide rapper Quando Rondo in a failed 2022 taking pictures, in response to prison fees unsealed by federal prosecutors on Friday (Oct. 25) — and he was allegedly planning to take a personal jet to Italy when he was arrested.
The Chicago rapper (actual identify Durk Devontay Banks) was arrested Thursday night on a cost of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, hours after a number of of his Solely the Household associates have been indicted on comparable fees over their alleged involvement within the tried killing of Rondo (Tyquian Bowman).
In a brand new grievance unsealed on Friday, prosecutors laid out their case in opposition to Durk (known as BANKS within the grievance) — accusing OTF of being not only a rap collective, but additionally a “hybrid group” that additionally capabilities as a prison gang that has carried out violent acts “on the route of BANKS.”
Prosecutors say a type of acts was the 2022 tried killing of Rondo, allegedly carried out in retaliation for the 2020 killing of rapper King Von (Dayvon Bennett), a detailed pal of Durk’s.
“BANKS put a financial bounty out for a person with whom BANKS was feuding named T.B.,” referring to Rondo by his initials. “BANKS ordered T.B.’s homicide and that the hitmen used BANKS and OTF-related funds to hold out the homicide.”
An lawyer for Lil Durk didn’t instantly return a request for touch upon Friday.
The fees got here a day after Los Angeles federal prosecutors unsealed murder-for-hire and murder-for-hire conspiracy fees in opposition to a number of alleged OTF members — Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson and Asa Houston – in addition to two different alleged Chicago gang members named Keith Jones and David Brian Lindsey.
In each the brand new fees and the sooner indictment, prosecutors declare that the 5 males have been behind the 2022 taking pictures. However within the new filings, they instantly allege that Durk ordered the killing, saying it was retaliation for a 2020 Atlanta taking pictures during which a Rondo affiliate allegedly shot and killed Von.
“On the time of the homicide, T.B. had a public feud with BANKS,” prosecutors write. “The feud stemmed from a Nov. 6, 2020, homicide, the place an affiliate of T.B. shot and killed an OTF rapper named Dayvon Bennett aka ‘King Von.’ Bennett was a member of OTF and BANKS’ shut pal.”
The brand new filings additionally declare that Durk was planning to flee the nation when he was arrested.
Prosecutors say that following the OTF arrests, they obtained notification that Durk had booked business flights to each Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and to Switzerland — flights that he by no means boarded. The FBI then allegedly discovered that he had booked passage on a personal jet to Italy, and Durk was arrested when he neared the departing airport for that flight.
King Von, a rising rapper in Chicago’s drill scene and a childhood pal of Durk, was shot and killed exterior an Atlanta nightclub on Nov. 6, 2020, after an argument between two teams was a combat within the car parking zone. A 22-year-old man named Timothy Leeks, reportedly an affiliate of Rondo, was arrested days later, however the case was ultimately dropped.
Two years later, on Aug. 19, 2022, Rondo and affiliate Lul Pab (Saviay’a Robinson) have been ambushed by gunmen whereas sitting of their automotive at a Los Angeles fuel station. Rondo emerged unscathed, however Robinson later died on the hospital.
In response to Thursday’s indictment, that killing was allegedly carried out by OTF members Grant, Wilson and Houston, in addition to by Jones and Lindsey, who prosecutors say have been “members of different gangs in Chicago.” They allege the group “used two autos to trace, stalk and try and kill T.B. by gunfire — together with with a totally automated firearm — ensuing within the dying of S.R.”
In Friday’s grievance, prosecutors say the group carried out the assault on orders from Durk in retaliation for the sooner King Von slaying. They cite a textual content allegedly despatched by Durk to a different co-conspirator: “Don’t ebook no flights beneath no names concerned wit me.”
In response to prosecutors, the group used “a bank card related to OTF” to purchase aircraft tickets to fly to Los Angeles and lease a lodge room. Utilizing two automobiles, together with one with pretend license plates, the group then tracked Rondo’s SUV by the town till they reached the fuel station.
“Jones and Lindsey, and Co-Conspirator 2 used the firearms procured by defendant Grant — together with the totally automated firearm — to shoot at T.B.’s automotive, hanging and killing S.R., who was standing subsequent to T.B.’s automotive whereas T.B. was inside,” prosecutors write.
After fleeing the scene, prosecutors say the group later reconvened at a restaurant, the place they hashed out funds for the crime. Later within the day, they allegedly used the identical OTF-linked bank card to buy aircraft tickets and fly again to Chicago.
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