Rapper Lil Durk was arrested in Florida on murder-for-hire charges

Rapper Lil Durk was arrested by U.S. Marshals on murder-for-hire charges in Florida on Thursday, according to booking records.

The 32-year-old Chicago artist, whose legal name is Durk Devontay Banks, was booked into the Broward County Jail and is being held without bail.

NBC News is reaching out to the U.S. Marshals and Lil Durk's representatives for comment.

Five people associated with his hip-hop collective Only the Family have been arrested in a federal indictment in California, accusing them of committing a contract killing resulting in death, allegedly in revenge for the death of a fellow human being was committed by a group member.

Three suspected OTF members – Kavon London Grant, known as “Cuz” or “Vonnie”; Deandre Dontrell Wilson, known as “DeDe”; Asa Houston, known as “Boogie,” was indicted by a grand jury for her alleged involvement in the murder, according to court documents filed Oct. 17 and unsealed Thursday.

Keith Jones, aka “Flacka,” and David Brian Lindsey, aka “Browneyez,” both allegedly members of other Chicago gangs, were also charged, according to the documents.

The five men could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday.

OTF produces and distributes hip hop music from artists primarily based in Chicago. Lil Durk is the collective's founder, according to The Chicago Tribune, and released an album of the same title in 2018.

The indictment states that on November 6, 2020, a senior OTF member described by the initials “DB” got into a physical altercation with someone identified only as “TB” at a nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia. is referred to. During that fight, prosecutors say, one of TB's employees pulled out a gun and shot DB several times, killing him.

Although the victim was not named in the indictment, on the same day in 2020, NBC News reported the death of Dayvon Daquan Bennett, an Atlanta rapper known as “King Von” who was part of OTF and collaborated with Lil Durk in music.

After DB's death, a person described as “Co-Conspirator 1” made it “clear in coded language” that they would pay a bounty to “anyone involved in the killing of TB” for their role in the murder of DB or would pay a financial reward,” the indictment said.

Then in August. “The conspirators learned that TB was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles,” the filing states.

After learning of TB's whereabouts, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston, as well as a person described as “Co-Conspirator 2,” traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles “to assassinate TB.” That day, Grant also traveled from Florida to Los Angeles on a private jet, the indictment says.

On August 19, 2022, Grant, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston and Co-Conspirator 2 used two vehicles to “locate, pursue and kill TB by gunfire – including with a fully automatic firearm – resulting in the death of SR. “ “, who was a passenger in TB’s vehicle.

The indictment said that day that Grant, Wilson Jones Lindsey and Houston and Co-Conspirator 2 were tracked down. TB's black Escalade pulls up to a gas station on Beverly Boulevard and Houston drives his vehicle into an alley behind the gas station and parks so that “Jones, Lindsey and Co-Conspirator2 can attempt to murder TB.”

Jones, Lindsey and Co-Conspirators 2 allegedly fired multiple shots at TB but ultimately killed SR, and Wilson paid the bounty/cash reward on behalf of the co-conspirators, the document states.

The charging documents say the five and their co-conspirators used “facilities of interstate and foreign commerce” such as airplanes, automobiles, cell phones and the Internet “with the intent to commit tuberculosis murder.”

Grant allegedly obtained cars, ski masks and firearms that were used to detect, locate and kill tuberculosis, the indictment says.

The charges against the five men include conspiracy and use of interstate facilities to commit contract killing resulting in death, carrying and firing firearms and machine guns and possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death, possession of a machine gun and criminal confiscation .

It is not immediately clear whether the men have retained lawyers.