Lil Durk is alleged to have been concerned in a second homicide.
In a report from USA As we speak, the allegation towards the Chicago rapper surfaced amid a submitting made by attorneys for the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for California’s Central District arguing for why he shouldn’t be launched from jail. He’s presently being held in a federal detention middle in downtown Los Angeles for a separate murder-for-hire cost.
Per USA As we speak, included within the submitting have been particulars of the FBI’s investigation on the dying of Stephon Mack in Chicago in January 2022. Within the investigation, an agent claimed that Durk may have funded the killing.
As USA As we speak famous, Durk allegedly being tied to a second murder-for-hire plot was first reported by The Chicago Tribune, which supplied extra particulars as to why Durk is suspected of being concerned in Mack’s dying.
In keeping with the publication, the FBI suspected that Mack was the chief of the Smashville division of a gang referred to as the Gangster Disciples, and that one other Gangster Disciples division linked to Smashville took on the homicide of Durk’s brother, Dontay Banks, who was killed in 2021.
“Lil Durk was and nonetheless is providing cash for folks to kill these chargeable for his brother’s homicide, and extra particularly, providing to pay cash for any Gangster Disciple that’s killed,” a federal agent stated in April final yr, in accordance with the Tribune.
Again in October, Durk was arrested in regard to a murder-for-hire cost. He’s alleged to have been concerned within the 2022 deadly taking pictures of Lul Pab, actual identify Saviay’a Robinson. Robinson, who was shot at a West Hollywood gasoline station, was the cousin of rapper Quando Rondo, actual identify Tyquian Terrel Bowman. Quando was in a battle with Lil Durk’s buddy King Von shortly earlier than Von was shot and killed in Atlanta 4 years in the past. The fees towards Von’s killer, Lul Tim, have been dropped final yr.
On Thursday, Durk’s attorneys argued for a bond for the rapper, with the plan “together with $1 million money, $2.3 million in property, digital monitoring, around-the-clock safety at a safe property, and the give up of all digital units,” in accordance with a Rolling Stone report.
Nonetheless, the decide overseeing the listening to sided with prosecutors, reportedly saying, “Based mostly on all the proof, I discover that there isn’t a situation or mixture of situations that can fairly guarantee the protection of the neighborhood.”
“The allegations usually are not that the defendant personally pulled the set off. The allegations are that the defendant workouts a major quantity of management over others,” the decide added.
A trial for the Durk’s alleged involvement in Lul Pab’s dying is scheduled to start out in January.
