Federal prosecutors have linked Chicago rapper Lil Durk to the 2022 murder of Stephon Mack within the metropolis’s Roseland neighborhood, in line with a report from the Chicago Tribune.
Last month, Lil Durk pleaded not responsible to federal murder-for-hire costs that he allegedly paid for the tried revenge killing of rapper Quando Rondo.
According to Chicago Tribune, the most recent particulars have been revealed in a warrant utility that was first filed in April 2023 however was not unsealed till Wednesday.
Lil Durk, born Durk Devontay Banks, was initially charged with a murder-for-hire conspiracy in a legal criticism filed Oct. 24 — the identical day an indictment was unsealed charging 5 others within the 2022 assault that killed the cousin of Quando Rondo, whose actual title is Tyquian Bowman, in Los Angeles.
Banks was additionally charged with further conspiracy and gun costs in a superseding indictment filed final week within the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He faces as much as life in jail.
According to the Chicago Tribune report, unsealed paperwork allege Banks was behind the January 2022 killing of 24-year-old Stephon Mack, who was fatally shot when leaving a youth middle in Roseland.
The Chicago Tribune report connects the killing to the 2021 slaying of Dontay Banks, Banks’ brother, who was fatally shot exterior a Harvey nightclub.
Mack was shot in his head and chest and was pronounced useless at a hospital. A 40-year-old safety guard for the youth middle suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and survived the assault, officers stated.
Federal prosecutors accused Anthony Montgomery-Wilson, 24, and Preston Powell, 23, each Chicagoans, of conspiring with others to fatally shoot Mack in change for cash.
