Lil Durk acquitted in LA murder-for-hire plot that targeted rival rapper Quando Rondo

Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk was found not guilty in a murder-for-hire plot that targeted rival rapper Quando Rondo and killed another man in an alleged revenge attack for the death of a close friend.Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Banks, was acquitted Friday on charges of conspiracy, stalking resulting in death and murder for hire following three days of deliberation by a federal jury in Los Angeles.The trial was attended by a throng of Durk supporters at the downtown LA federal courthouse, including artists Machine Gun Kelly and Kanye West.“Lil Durk is not guilty on ALL COUNTS,” Ye wrote on X.The 33-year-old Chicago native was accused of paying for a group of men to fly out to Los Angeles in August 2022 and follow Rondo and his entourage before three gunmen opened fire on the rapper’s Cadillac Escalade outside a gas station near the Beverly Center shopping mall.Rondo, whose real name is Tyquian Terrel Bowman, survived the shooting, but his 24-year-old cousin Saviay’a Robinson, also known as Lul Pab, was killed.Approximately 18 rounds had been dumped into the SUV Rondo was in with his cousin.Prosecutors alleged that the plot was a revenge attack on Rondo after a member of his crew killed Durk’s close friend and rapper King Von, whose real name is Dayvon Bennett, in a shooting at an Atlanta nightclub in 2020.The initial deadly shooting was sparked when Bennett and Rondo got into a fistfight at a hookah lounge before the former was fatally shot.“(Durk) had his shooters on speed dial,” Assistant US Attorney Ian Yanniello said in his closing arguments, according to the Los Angeles Times.“No one is saying he was the one on the ground with a gun in his hand in Los Angeles, but you know this story doesn’t happen without him, and it doesn’t make sense without his leadership.”“(Durk) used his money, his power, and his influence to try to kill his biggest opp,” Yanniello added.

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