Lil Durk has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme. After being stung in Florida, he is being held without bond.
TMZ reports that the Chicago rapper and several members of the Only The Family (OTF) crew were charged with the murder of his rapper cousin Quando Rondo. On Thursday (October 24) night, Durk was arrested by the feds and booked into the Broward County Jail. The guarantee was not granted.
Per the Chicago TribuneOTF members have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire resulting in death, and use of a machine gun in a violent crime resulting in death.
OTF members were arrested for their involvement in an August 2022 shooting in Los Angeles that left Quando Rondo's cousin dead. But the bottom line is that the indictment alleges that flights and rental cars provided to five men were paid for with a credit card linked to Durk's record label, Only The Family Records. On August 19, 2022, Quando Rondo and crew were at a gas station in Los Angeles when shots were fired. While Quando was not injured, his cousin Saviay'a Robinson, 24, was fatally shot.
According to federal authorities, the 2022 shooting was in retaliation for the 2020 killing of King Von. In November 2020, the up-and-coming Chicago rapper was shot and killed outside an Atlanta hookah lounge after a reported altercation with his entourage Cuando Rondo. Flash forward to August 2023 and Lul Tim, born Timothy Leakes, the shooter who allegedly killed Von, saw the felony murder charges against him dropped.
Since Von's death, Durk has directed his anger at Quando Rondo, saying he bought all the tickets to a show to abuse the rapper. But killing for hire, allegedly, is a whole other level of evil. Rondo has always maintained that the shot was self-defense.
This story is evolving.