Rapper Lil Durk was detained in Florida on suspicion of murder for hire

The 32-year-old rapper from Chicago was arrested for murder for hire and detained overnight in Broward County.

Booking records show that U.S. Marshals detained rapper Lil Durk on Thursday in Florida on a murder for hire accusation.

The Chicago artist, 32, whose legal name is Durk Devontay Banks, was arrested and is being held without bail at the Broward County jail. 

The U.S. Marshals and Lil Durk’s representatives have been contacted by NBC News for comment.

This comes as five members of his hip-hop collective, “Only the Family,” were detained in California on a federal indictment, charged with a murder for hire that claimed a life and was allegedly carried out as retaliation for the death of a group member.

Asa Houston, also known as “Boogie,” Deandre Dontrell Wilson, also known as “DeDe,” and Kavon London Grant, also known as “Cuz” or “Vonnie,” are three suspected OTF members who were charged by a grand jury for their alleged involvement in the murder, according to court documents filed on October 17 and made public.

The records also claimed that David Brian Lindsey, also known as “Browneyez,” and Keith Jones, popularly known as “Flacka,” were members of other Chicago gangs.

Friday, it was not immediately possible to get in touch with the five men for comment.

Hip hop music from mostly Chicago-based artists is produced and distributed by OTF. According to The Chicago Tribune, Lil Durk founded the collective and released an album with the same name in 2018.

According to the charging complaint, on November 6, 2020, at a nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia, a senior OTF official wearing the initials “D.B.” and someone known only as “T.B.” got into a physical conflict. An companion of T.B. allegedly pulled out a revolver during that altercation and shot D.B. many times, killing him, according to the prosecution. 

NBC News reported on the death of Dayvon Daquan Bennett, a rapper known as “King Von,” in Atlanta on that same date in 2020. Bennett was a member of OTF and worked on music with Lil Durk, but the victim was not identified in the charge sheet.

According to the indictment, a person identified as a “Co-Conspirator 1” “made clear, in coded language,” after D.B.’s death, that they would “pay a bounty or monetary reward” to “anyone who took part in killing T.B. for his role in D.B.’s murder.” 

Afterward, the lawsuit stated that on August 18, 2022, “the conspirators learned that T.B. was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles.”

Wilson, Jones, Lindsey, and Houston, together with an individual known as “co-conspirator 2,” set out from Chicago to Los Angeles “with the intention of killing T.B.” after discovering T.B.’s whereabouts. The indictment also claims that Grant used a private jet from Florida to Los Angeles on that day. 

S.R., a passenger in T.B.’s vehicle, was killed on August 19, 2022, when Grant, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey, Houston, and Co-Conspirator 2 used two vehicles to “track, stalk, and attempt to kill T.B. by gunfire — including with a fully automatic firearm…”

According to the indictment, Grant, Houston, Wilson Jones Lindsey, and Co-Conspirator 2 tracked that day. In order to attempt to kill T.B., Jones, Lindsey, and Co-Conspirator 2 drove their black Escalade to a petrol station on Beverly Boulevard and Houston, where they parked in an alley behind the station.

According to the document, Jones, Lindsey, and Co-Conspirator 2 killed S.R. after firing multiple bullets at T.B. Wilson allegedly paid the bounty or monetary reward on behalf of the co-conspirators.

According to the indictment, the five and their accomplices used “facilities of interstate and foreign commerce,” including automobiles, cell phones, airplanes, and the internet, “with intent that the murder of T.B. be committed.”

According to the indictment, Grant is accused of obtaining vehicles, ski masks, and firearms that were utilized to locate, pursue, and murder T.B.

The five men are charged in the indictment with conspiracy, using interstate facilities to do murder for hire that results in death, carrying and firing a firearm or machine gun, possessing a machine gun in connection with a violent crime that results in death, and criminal forfeiture. 

It’s unclear right now if the men have hired lawyers.