Chicago rapper Lil Durk has been arrested on murder-for-hire charges in Florida Thursday night. Overnight, the 32-year-old was held at Broward County and is currently being held without bail, according to booking records.
NBC News reported that five people associated with Lil Durk’s hip-hop collective “Only the Family,” have been arrested on a federal indictment in California. Lil Durk founded the collective to sell hip-hop music from artists primarily from Chicago. The individuals are accused of committing a murder-for-hire that resulted in a death. The murder-for-hire was allegedly done out of revenge for the death of another fellow group member. OTF members Kavon London Grant (aka Cuz or Vonnie), Deandre Dontrell Wilson (DeDe) and Asa Houston (Boogie), are alleged OTF members that were charged by a grand jury for their involvement in the murder earlier last week. As for members Keith Jones (Flacka) and David Brian Lindsey (Browneyez), they are both said to be affiliated with gangs in Chicago.
The indictment of the five men are said to be on charges of conspiracy and the use of interstate facilities to commit murder for hire resulting in death. Additionally, they have been charged with the use carry and discharge of firearms and machine-gun, possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death, possession of a machine gun and criminal forfeiture. The charging document lists that the event began back in 2020. Specifically, on November 6, 2020 a high-ranking OTF member by the initials “D.B.” got into a physical altercation with another person by the initials “T.B.” This occurred in an Atlanta nightclub where during the fight, one of T.B.’s associates pulled out a gun and shot D.B. multiple times, killing him in the process. While the victim was not covered in the charge sheet, the death of the rapper Dayvon Daquan Bennett aka “King Von” was covered back in 2020. The rapper who was fatally shot was a long-time collaborator with Lil Durk and part of OTF.
The charging document described that “Co-Conspirator 1…made clear, in coded language” that they would “pay a bounty or monetary reward” to “pay a bounty or monetary reward.” On August 18, 2022, the indictment read, “the conspirators learned that T.B. was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles.” Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston and a person described as “co-conspirator 2” learned of T.B.’s location in Los Angeles, and the group travelled from Chicago “for the purpose of murdering T.B.” Grant also travelled to LA by private jet that day. On August 19, 2022, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston and Co-Conspirator 2 travelled in two vehicles to “track, stalk and attempt to kill T.B. by gunfire — including with a fully automatic firearm — resulting in the death of S.R.,” a passenger in T.B.’s vehicle. After tracking T.B., they took their vehicle behind an alley of a gas station so that “Jones and Lindsey and Co-Conspirator2 could attempt to murder T.B.” Jones, Lindsey and Co-Conspirator 2 allegedly fired multiple shots at T.B. but killed S.R. instead. The charging documents claim that the group used “facilities of interstate and foreign commerce” like planes, cars, cell phones and the internet “with intent that the murder of T.B. be committed.”
