Chicago rapper Lil Durk mounted a rapid-fire defense Thursday, calling nine people to the witness stand — including the wife of one of the government’s star witnesses — on the same day both sides rested their case in the closely watched murder-for-hire trial. The judge then ordered jurors to return Tuesday for closing arguments.
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Durk, born Durk Banks, is accused of ordering a murder-for-hire plot targeting rival rapper Quando Rondo as “revenge” for the 2020 killing of Banks’ close friend and musical protégé King Von. Prosecutors say Banks placed a bounty on Quando Rondo, whose legal name is Tyquian Bowman, and that associates of his Only The Family, or OTF, collective opened fire on Bowman’s vehicle at a gas station near the Beverly Center on Aug. 19, 2022. Bowman survived, but his cousin, Saviay’a Robinson, known as Lul Pab, was killed…