Why did the rapper Lil Durk kill the man?

Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the 2022 murder of a rival as the leader of the Chicago rap group Only the Family, federal prosecutors said.

The arrest took place Thursday (Oct. 24) near the airport where Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, was booked on a flight departing from the United States, according to a criminal complaint.

The artist’s lawyer did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for a statement in his defense.

Lil Durk made his first appearance in federal court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday and is expected to be arraigned in Los Angeles federal court in the coming weeks, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. where charges are filed.

According to the indictment, Lil Durk, 32, was a suspect previously identified as “Conspirator 1” in an Oct. 17 indictment of five other suspects charged in the 2022 murder.

The intended target was a man identified as TB that Lil Durk wanted to kill, prosecutors say. The five other defendants learned that TB was in Los Angeles, tracked him down there and opened fire, including with a fully automatic weapon, but instead killed their partner, identified as SR, the indictment said.

An argument broke out in November 2020 at an Atlanta nightclub where TB shot another man and Lil Durk punched him in retaliation, according to the complaint. According to the indictment, this was one of the many bounties Lil Durk placed on people he wanted to kill.

Lil Durk won the 2024 Grammy for Best Melodic Rap Performance of My Lifetime. He released his ninth studio album on October 18, according to his social media.