Rapper Lil Durk has been arrested in Florida on murder-for-hire charges.
The Chicago-born artist, born Durk Banks, was arrested on Thursday and is currently being held in a Broward County, Florida, jail, according to arrest records viewed by USA TODAY. The 32-year-old Grammy winner is awaiting transfer to U.S. Marshals.
More details on his arrest have yet to be released, but it comes after five people were hit with federal murder-for-hire charges for the alleged targeting of Georgia rapper Quando Rondo in retaliation for the murder of Chicago rapper King Von, according to an indictment filed in a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles and obtained by USA TODAY Friday.
USA TODAY has reached out to Banks’ rep for comment.
Prosecutors claim all five people — named Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey and Asa Houston — have ties to Banks’ hip-hop group “Only The Family.”
King Von, born Dayvon Bennett, was an affiliate of the hip-hop collective and a friend and frequent collaborator of Banks, including on the track “Crazy Story,” and Banks was featured on Bennett’s debut studio album, “Welcome to O’Block.”
In December 2020, Banks released the track “The Voice” in tribute to Bennett, who died Nov. 6, 2020, at 26 following a shooting outside a nightclub in Atlanta. Bennett was shot around 3:20 a.m. during an argument between two groups of men that “escalated to gunfire,” according to a statement provided by the Atlanta Police Department at the time.
Banks is known for the tracks “All My Life” with J. Cole, “Broadway Girls” with Morgan Wallen and as a featured artist on Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later.”
