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US rapper Lil Durk acquitted in murder-for-hire trial

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Published on 2026-09-12 09:44:00

Grammy-winning rapper Durk Devontay Banks, popularly known as Lil Durk, has been acquitted of all charges in a federal murder-for-hire case over a 2022 shooting in Los Angeles that left the cousin of rival rapper Quando Rondo dead.

A Los Angeles jury found the rapper not guilty of all five federal felony counts after three days of deliberations.

Lil Durk was accused of orchestrating a revenge plot targeting Tyquian Bowman, an Atlanta rapper known professionally as Quando Rondo, following the 2020 killing of Banks’ close friend, Dayvon “King Von”…

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