Lil Durk is alleged to have been involved in a second murder.
In a report from USA Today, the allegation against the Chicago rapper surfaced amid a filing made by attorneys for the U.S. Attorney's Office for California's Central District arguing for why he shouldn’t be released from jail. He is currently being held in a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles for a separate murder-for-hire charge.
Per USA Today, included in the filing were details of the FBI’s investigation on the death of Stephon Mack in Chicago in January 2022. In the investigation, an agent claimed that Durk could have funded the killing.
As USA Today noted, Durk allegedly being tied to a second murder-for-hire plot was first reported by The Chicago Tribune, which offered more details as to why Durk is suspected of being involved in Mack’s death.
According to the publication, the FBI suspected that Mack was the leader of the Smashville division of a gang called the Gangster Disciples, and that another Gangster Disciples division connected to Smashville took on the murder of Durk’s brother, Dontay Banks, who was killed in 2021.
“Lil Durk was and still is offering money for people to kill those responsible for his brother’s murder, and more specifically, offering to pay money for any Gangster Disciple that is killed,” a federal agent said in April last year, according to the Tribune.
Back in October, Durk was arrested in regard to a murder-for-hire charge. He is alleged to have been involved in the 2022 fatal shooting of Lul Pab, real name Saviay’a Robinson. Robinson, who was shot at a West Hollywood gas station, was the cousin of rapper Quando Rondo, real name Tyquian Terrel Bowman. Quando was in a fight with Lil Durk’s friend King Von shortly before Von was shot and killed in Atlanta four years ago. The charges against Von’s killer, Lul Tim, were dropped last year.
On Thursday, Durk’s attorneys argued for a bond for the rapper, with the plan “including $1 million cash, $2.3 million in property, electronic monitoring, around-the-clock security at a secure property, and the surrender of all electronic devices,” according to a Rolling Stone report.
However, the judge overseeing the hearing sided with prosecutors, reportedly saying, “Based on all of the evidence, I find that there is no condition or combination of conditions that will reasonably assure the safety of the community.”
“The allegations are not that the defendant personally pulled the trigger. The allegations are that the defendant exercises a significant amount of control over others,” the judge added.
A trial for the Durk’s alleged involvement in Lul Pab’s death is scheduled to start in January.
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