Rapper Lil Durk was arrested Thursday in Florida by US Marshals on a charge of murder for hire, according to booking records.
The 32-year-old artist from Chicago, whose legal name is Durk Devontay Banks, was booked into the Broward County jail, and is being held without bail.
NBC News is out to the US Marshals and reps for Lil Durk for comment.
It comes as five people associated with his hip hop collective, “Only the Family,” were arrested on a federal indictment in California, accused of committing a murder for hire that resulted in death and was allegedly done in revenge for the death of a fellow group member.
Three alleged OTF members — Kavon London Grant, known as “Cuz” or “Vonnie;” Deandre Dontrell Wilson, known as “DeDe;” Asa Houston, known as “Boogie” — was charged by a grand jury for her alleged part in the murder, according to court documents filed Oct. 17 and unsealed Thursday.
Keith Jones aka “Flacka,” and David Brian Lindsey aka “Browneyez,” both said to be members of other gangs in Chicago, according to the documents, were also indicted.
The five men could not be immediately reached for comment Friday.
OTF produces and sells hip hop music from artists primarily from Chicago. Lil Durk is the founder of the collective, according to Chicago Tribuneand has a 2018 album under the same title.
The charging document said that on Nov. 6, 2020 a high-ranking OTF member, described by the initials “DB,” got into a physical altercation with someone referred to only as “TB” at a nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia. During that fight, prosecutors say, an associate of TB pulled out a gun and shot DB multiple times, killing him.
Though the victim was not named in the charge sheet, on that same date in 2020 NBC News covered the death of Dayvon Daquan Bennett, a rapper who went by “King Von,” in Atlanta who was part of OTF and collaborated with Lil Durk on music.
After DB’s death a person, described as a “Co-Conspirator 1,” “made clear, in coded language” that they would “pay a bounty or monetary reward” to “anyone who took part in killing TB for his role in DB’s murder ,” the indictment said.
Then on August. 18, 2022, the “the conspirators learned that TB was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles,” the filing said.
After learning of TB’s location, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston and a person described as “co-conspirator 2” traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles “for the purpose of murdering TB” That day Grant also traveled by private jet from Florida to Los Angeles, according to the indictment.
On Aug. 19, 2022, Grant, Wilson, Jones, Lindsey and Houston and Co-Conspirator 2 used two vehicles to “track, stalk and attempt to 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 on that day, Grant, Wilson Jones Lindsey and Houston and Co-Conspirator 2 tracked. TB’s black Escalade to a gas station on Beverly Boulevard and Houston rove their vehicle to an alley behind the gas station and parked so that “Jones and Lindsey and Co-Conspirator2 could attempt to murder TB”
Jones, Lindsey and Co-Conspirator 2 allegedly fired multiple shots at TB but ended up killing SR, and Wilson paid the bounty/monetary reward on behalf of co-conspirators, the document said.
The charging documents said the five and co-conspirators used “facilities of interstate and foreign commerce” such as planes, cars, cell phones and the internet, “with intent that the murder of TB be committed.”
Grant allegedly procured cars, ski masks and firearms that were used to find, track and kill TB, the indictment said.
The indictment for the five men is on charges of conspiracy and the use of interstate facilities to commit murder for hire resulting in death, use carry and discharge of firearms and machine-gun, possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death, possession of a machine gun and criminal forfeiture.
It’s not immediately clear if the men have retained attorneys.