{"id":461071,"date":"2026-09-12T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461071\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:12:08","slug":"jury-arrives-at-verdict-in-lil-durk-murder-for-hire-trial-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461071\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury arrives at verdict in Lil Durk murder-for-hire trial \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jurors have reached a verdict in the murder-for-hire-trial of Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk in connection with a deadly shooting near a Los Angeles shopping center.<\/p>\n

The federal grand jury began deliberations Wednesday. The decision is expected to be announced soon.<\/p>\n

Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Banks, and two others are charged with stalking and killing a man in an ambush near the Beverly Center<\/a> four years ago. Banks is accused of setting in motion a plan to kill Tyquian Bowman, a rival Atlanta rapper known as Quando Rondo.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors contend Banks paid for a hit team to travel from Chicago to Los Angeles in August 2022 with the intention of killing Bowman, but the plan went awry when their shots mistakenly killed 24-year-old Saviay’a Robinson, Bowman’s cousin, who was seated in a black Escalade with the intended victim. Prosecutors said gunmen fired at least 18 rounds at Bowman’s vehicle outside the high-traffic shopping area.<\/p>\n

Banks, who won a Best Melodic Rap Performance Grammy in 2024 for the hit “All My Life,” allegedly ordered, bankrolled and planned the intended murder as revenge after an associate of Bowman’s killed a close friend of Banks’, Dayvon “King Von” Bennett, in 2020 at an Atlanta nightclub, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Banks’ attorneys, however, maintain that the 33-year-old Chicago rapper wasn’t involved in the planned hit. Instead, they told the jury, it was Banks’ former personal assistant Kavon Grant — who subsequently switched sides and testified for the government — who set up the intended killing of Bowman to impress his boss.<\/p>\n

The defendants have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy, stalking of Bowman using a dangerous weapon, stalking of Robinson resulting in death, and two counts involving murder-for-hire allegations. Banks may later face a second trial on federal racketeering charges.<\/p>\n

Grant and two other members of Banks’ inner circle reached plea deals and testified for the government about Durk’s alleged involvement in the scheme during the trial in Los Angeles federal court. Banks declined to testify in his own defense and Bowman was not called to the stand.<\/p>\n

Banks, who also is the founder of the hip-hop collective Only The Family, known as OTF. He has been held in federal custody in Los Angeles since his arrest in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If convicted on the charges, he could face life in federal prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurors have reached a verdict in the murder-for-hire-trial of Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk in connection with a deadly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4845,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-461071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-celebrity-news","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\/461071","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=461071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}