{"id":3101,"date":"2024-10-25T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T20:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lil-durk-ordered-quando-rondos-murder-planned-to-flee-country-feds\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T20:22:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T20:22:11","slug":"lil-durk-ordered-quando-rondos-murder-planned-to-flee-country-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lil-durk-ordered-quando-rondos-murder-planned-to-flee-country-feds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Durk Ordered Quando Rondo’s Murder, Planned to Flee Country: Feds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tLil Durk ordered his OTF associates to murder rapper Quando Rondo in a failed 2022 shooting, according to criminal charges unsealed by federal prosecutors on Friday (Oct. 25) \u2014 and he was allegedly planning to take a private jet to Italy when he was arrested.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Chicago rapper (real name Durk Devontay Banks) was arrested Thursday evening on a charge of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, hours after several of his Only the Family associates were indicted on similar charges over their alleged involvement in the attempted killing of Rondo (Tyquian Bowman).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new complaint unsealed on Friday, prosecutors laid out their case against Durk (referred to as BANKS in the complaint) \u2014 accusing OTF of being not just a rap collective, but also a \u201chybrid organization\u201d that also functions as a criminal gang that has carried out violent acts \u201cat the direction of BANKS.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tProsecutors say one of those acts was the 2022 attempted killing of Rondo, allegedly carried out in retaliation for the 2020 killing of rapper King Von (Dayvon Bennett), a close friend of Durk\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBANKS put a monetary bounty out for an individual with whom BANKS was feuding named T.B.,\u201d referring to Rondo by his initials. \u201cBANKS ordered T.B.\u2019s murder and that the hitmen used BANKS and OTF-related finances to carry out the murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAn attorney for Lil Durk did not immediately return a request for comment on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe charges came a day after Los Angeles federal prosecutors unsealed murder-for-hire and murder-for-hire conspiracy charges against several alleged OTF members \u2014 Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson and Asa Houston \u2013 as well as two other alleged Chicago gang members named Keith Jones and David Brian Lindsey.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn both the new charges and the earlier indictment, prosecutors claim that the five men were behind the 2022 shooting. But in the new filings, they directly allege that Durk ordered the killing, saying it was retaliation for a 2020 Atlanta shooting in which a Rondo associate allegedly shot and killed Von.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt the time of the murder, T.B. had a public feud with BANKS,\u201d prosecutors write. \u201cThe feud stemmed from a Nov. 6, 2020, murder, where an associate of T.B. shot and killed an OTF rapper named Dayvon Bennett aka \u2018King Von.\u2019 Bennett was a member of OTF and BANKS\u2019 close friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new filings also claim that Durk was planning to flee the country when he was arrested.<\/p>\n

\n\tProsecutors say that following the OTF arrests, they received notification that Durk had booked commercial flights to both Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and to Switzerland \u2014 flights that he never boarded. The FBI then allegedly learned that he had booked passage on a private jet to Italy, and Durk was arrested when he neared the departing airport for that flight.<\/p>\n

\n\tKing Von, a rising rapper in Chicago\u2019s drill scene and a childhood friend of Durk, was shot and killed outside an Atlanta nightclub on Nov. 6, 2020, after an argument between two groups turned into a fight in the parking lot. A 22-year-old man named Timothy Leeks, reportedly an associate of Rondo, was arrested days later, but the case was eventually dropped.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo years later, on Aug. 19, 2022, Rondo and associate Lul Pab (Saviay\u2019a Robinson) were ambushed by gunmen while sitting in their car at a Los Angeles gas station. Rondo emerged unscathed, but Robinson later died at the hospital.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Thursday\u2019s indictment, that killing was allegedly carried out by OTF members Grant, Wilson and Houston, as well as by Jones and Lindsey, who prosecutors say were \u201cmembers of other gangs in Chicago.\u201d They allege the group \u201cused two vehicles to track, stalk and attempt to kill T.B. by gunfire \u2014 including with a fully automatic firearm \u2014 resulting in the death of S.R.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Friday\u2019s complaint, prosecutors say the group carried out the attack on orders from Durk in retaliation for the earlier King Von slaying. They cite a text allegedly sent by Durk to another co-conspirator: \u201cDon\u2019t book no flights under no names involved wit me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to prosecutors, the group used \u201ca credit card associated with OTF\u201d to buy plane tickets to fly to Los Angeles and rent a hotel room. Using two cars, including one with fake license plates, the group then tracked Rondo\u2019s SUV through the city until they reached the gas station.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJones and Lindsey, and Co-Conspirator 2 used the firearms procured by defendant Grant \u2014 including the fully automatic firearm \u2014 to shoot at T.B.\u2019s car, striking and killing S.R., who was standing next to T.B.\u2019s car while T.B. was inside,\u201d prosecutors write.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter fleeing the scene, prosecutors say the group later reconvened at a restaurant, where they hashed out payments for the crime. Later in the day, they allegedly used the same OTF-linked credit card to purchase plane tickets and fly back to Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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