Lil Durk Found Not Guilty in Murder-for-Hire Case

Rapper Lil Durk was found not guilty of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot connected to a 2022 shooting that left the cousin of hip-hop artist Quando Rondo dead. The jury handed down the verdict minutes ago. The jurors’ decision brings a nearly six-year saga to a conclusion. The 33-year-old Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, has maintained his innocence throughout the ordeal. Federal prosecutors charged Banks in October 2024 alleging he helped pull together a scheme to try to have Quando Rondo killed as an act of revenge for the 2020 fatal shooting of 26-year-old King Von, a rapper on Banks’ Only the Family crew and record label. In 2020, a gun fight broke out between Quando Rondo and his affiliates and King Von and his associates in Atlanta, resulting in two men dying, including King Von. Quando Rondo was not charged and a person affiliated with him had charges dropped after investigators concluded the shooting was self defense. But prosecutors said the beef didn’t end there. Prosecutors claimed that five men were involved in the murder-for-hire plot and that Banks had offered money and musical opportunities to anyone who assassinated Quando Rondo. A federal indic...