As a seasoned gamer with a soft spot for hip-hop and a knack for following the lives of my favorite artists, I can’t help but feel a pang of disillusionment upon hearing about Lil Durk‘s latest brush with the law. It seems like the Chicago rap scene has become a modern-day Wild West, where instead of gunslingers, we have rappers, and instead of tumbleweeds, there are tweets flying around.
On Thursday evening, Florida authorities apprehended Chicago rapper Lil Durk on allegations of soliciting a murder. Currently, the 32-year-old artist is detained in Broward County, with no bail set, as per jail records.
According to NBC News, five people linked to rapper Lil Durk’s hip-hop group “Only the Family” were recently taken into custody by federal authorities in California on a murder-for-hire charge. Established by Lil Durk as a platform for promoting music from primarily Chicago-based artists, the collective now faces allegations that its members ordered a hit to avenge the death of another group member. Kavon London Grant (also known as Cuz or Vonnie), Deandre Dontrell Wilson (DeDe), and Asa Houston (Boogie) are among the accused OTF members charged by a grand jury in connection with the murder, which occurred last week. Additionally, Keith Jones (Flacka) and David Brian Lindsey (Browneyez) are reportedly associated with gangs in Chicago.
Five individuals are alleged to have been indicted for conspiring to commit murder-for-hire, using interstate facilities, and other related offenses that led to death. These charges include the unlawful use, carrying, and discharging firearms, possessing machine guns during a violent crime resulting in death, possessing a machine gun, and criminal forfeiture. The official document indicates that this incident dates back to 2020.
The charging document described that “Co-Conspirator 1…made clear, in coded language” that they would “pay a bounty or monetary reward” to “pay a bounty or monetary reward.” On August 18, 2022, the indictment read, “the conspirators learned that T.B. was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles.” Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston and a person described as “co-conspirator 2” learned of T.B.’s location in Los Angeles, and the group travelled from Chicago “for the purpose of murdering T.B.” Grant also travelled to LA by private jet that day. On August 19, 2022, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston and Co-Conspirator 2 travelled in two vehicles to “track, stalk and attempt to kill T.B. by gunfire — including with a fully automatic firearm — resulting in the death of S.R.,” a passenger in T.B.’s vehicle. After tracking T.B., they took their vehicle behind an alley of a gas station so that “Jones and Lindsey and Co-Conspirator2 could attempt to murder T.B.” Jones, Lindsey and Co-Conspirator 2 allegedly fired multiple shots at T.B. but killed S.R. instead. The charging documents claim that the group used “facilities of interstate and foreign commerce” like planes, cars, cell phones and the internet “with intent that the murder of T.B. be committed.”
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2024-10-25 18:26