Lil Durk, who already has murder-for-hire charges filed against him in Los Angeles, has now been implicated in connection with the 2022 shooting of an alleged gang lead on the city’s Far South Side, according to newly unsealed court records, Chicago Tribune reported.
The warrant application was made public on Wednesday ahead of a detention hearing for Durk’s murder-for-hire case in Los Angeles, which had been filed in April of 2023.
The rapper’s real name is Devontay Durk Banks, and he was charged last month with orchestrating a cross-country murder-for-hire scheme in retaliation for the killing of fellow Chicago rapper King Von in Atlanta in 2020.
According to an unsealed filing in U.S. District Court in Chicago, Banks was responsible for the engineered murder of 24-year-old Stephon Mack, the leader of the Smashville Gangster Disciples. Mack was shot shortly after leaving the Youth Peace Center of Roseland on West 111th Street.
The filing adds that Durk’s brother, Dontay Banks, was murdered in 2021 outside a nightclub in Harvey, Illinois, with police suggesting that a rival faction of the Gangster Disciples connected to Smashville was responsible for the backlash.
“Lil Durk has been offering money for the killing of those responsible for his brother’s death specifically targeting members of the Gangster Disciples,” an agent wrote in the Federal Bureau of Investigations warrant of April 2023.
Although rumors are fueling the fact that Durk is not yet officially named in the investigation underway in Chicago, sources mentioned to the Tribune that this case remains very active and ongoing.
