{"id":442473,"date":"2026-08-25T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442473\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:22:09","slug":"opening-statements-begin-in-murder-for-hire-trial-alleging-lil-durk-put-bounty-on-life-of-quando-rondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442473\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening statements begin in murder-for-hire trial alleging Lil Durk put bounty on life of Quando Rondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 24, 2026 11:30PM<\/p>\n<p>Opening statements began Monday in the murder-for-hire trial of Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk, who is accused of placing a bounty on a rival Atlanta rapper.<\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Charles Rex Arbogast<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Opening statements began Monday in the murder-for-hire trial of Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk, who is accused of placing a bounty on a rival Atlanta rapper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutors told jurors that Lil Durk, whose legal name is Durk Banks, set in motion a plan to stalk, hunt and kill Tyquian Bowman, an Atlanta rapper known as Quando Rondo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to prosecutors, the alleged plot resulted in the death of Bowman&#8217;s cousin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Banks, 33, has pleaded not guilty through his defense team, which argued during opening statements that he had no involvement in the alleged scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If convicted, Banks could face a sentence of life in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, August 24, 2026 11:30PM Opening statements began Monday in the murder-for-hire trial of Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[175275,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-442473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-175275","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}