CHICAGO ( WGN ) – Grammy Award-winning Chicago rapper “Lil Durk” is facing new charges in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting a rival rapper. He could now be facing life in federal prison.
The 32-year-old rapper, whose birth name is Durk Devontay Banks, has been charged with one count of conspiracy, one count of use of interstate facilities to commit murder-for-hire resulting in death, and one count of using, carrying, and discharging firearms and a machine gun and possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death, according to a superseding federal grand jury indictment announced by the Justice Department on Friday.
Chicago rapper Lil Durk arrested in Florida over murder-for-hire plot
The latest indictment includes two additional felony charges against Banks and adds him as the lead defendant to a previous indictment , which charged 28-year-old Kavon London Grant, 33-year-old Deandre Dontrell Wilson, 33-year-old Keith Jones, 33-year-old David Brian Lindsey, and 36-year-old Asa Houston in connection with the plot.