Rapper Lil Durk has been arrested in South Florida in a murder-for-hire plot, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.
Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service, records show.
Banks is accused of being the leader of a Chicago-based rap collective — called Only the Family — that acts as a group of individuals who engage in violence, including murder and assault, at the direction of Banks, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
He is accused of placing a “monetary bounty out for an individual with whom Banks was feuding,” according to the complaint.
Banks was feuding with an individual identified in court documents as T.B. The feud stemmed from a murder that occurred on Nov. 6, 2020, in which “an associate of T.B. shot and killed an OTF rapper named Dayvon Bennett, a.k.a. ‘King Von,'” who was close friends with Banks, the Department of Justice said in a press release.