Lil Durk Arrested In Florida For Alleged Murder-For-Hire Plot

Lil Durk has been arrested for his role in an alleged murder-for-hire plot. According to CBS Chicago, the rapper, né Devontay Durk Banks, was arrested in Miami’s Broward County on Thursday night (Oct. 25).

The outlet details that Banks’ detainment arrived days after members of his OTF crew were indicted as “co-conspirators in a murder-for-hire plot in Los Angeles, California.” It’s currently unclear whether Banks’ arrest is connected to the same case involving his OTF camp.

However, investigators close to Durk’s case are stating that his murder-for-hire connection is retaliation for the death of King Von, a close friend to the rapper. No other information regarding Lil Durk’s arrest has been released as of Friday (Oct. 25).

As for the arrested OTF members, the Chicago Tribune reports that three of them—Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, and Asa Houston—were charged by a grand jury. Meanwhile, two other men, Keith Jones and David Brian Lindsey, were indicted in the case.

Documents unsealed in the case revealed that a high-ranking Only the Family member got in a fight on Nov. 6, 2020, with someone in a nightclub in Atlanta. As the fight escalated, the men fighting the OTF member pulled out a gun, shot him multiple times, and killed him.

While his name was redacted, fans will know that King Von, whose real name is Dayvon Daquan Bennett, also known as King Von, was shot and killed on Nov. 6, 2020. The unsealed documents claim that another member of OTF, listed as “Co-Conspirator 1” “made clear, in coded language,” that they would “pay a bounty or monetary reward” to “anyone who took part in killing” King Von’s killer.

“The charging documents said the five and co-conspirators used ‘facilities of interstate and foreign commerce’ such as planes, cars, cell phones and the internet, ‘with intent that the murder of [King Von’s killer] be committed,’” the indictment read.

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