CHICAGO — Federal charges have been filed against five people accused in a murder-for-hire plot targeting rapper Quando Rondo over his suspected involvement in the killing of emerging Chicago rapper King Von in 2020 in Atlanta.
The indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday, charged Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Keith Jones, David Brian Lindsey, and Asa Houston.
Those named in the indictment are facing charges including conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, committing murder-for-hire resulting in death, as well as the use of, carry and discharge of firearms and a machinegun in the furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death.
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Prosecutors alleged that all five individuals named in the indictment have ties to the hip-hop group “Only the Family” (OTF), formed by Chicago rapper Lil Durk in 2010.
According to the indictment, two years after the 2020 murder of rapper King Von, whose real name is Dayvon Daquan Bennett, outside an Atlanta hookah lounge, alleged members of OTF offered money and music opportunities in exchange for the murder of Georgia-based rapper Quando Rondo, whose real name is Tyquian Terrel Bowman, in retaliation for his suspected involvement in the killing.