{"id":461577,"date":"2026-09-12T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461577\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:44:09","slug":"rapper-lil-durk-acquitted-of-murder-for-hire-at-los-angeles-trial-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461577\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Lil Durk acquitted of murder-for-hire at Los Angeles trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — A federal jury on Friday found rapper Lil Durk<\/a> not guilty of the attempted killing for hire of rival rapper Quando Rondo<\/a> at a Los Angeles gas station, a shooting that resulted in the death of Rondo\u2019s cousin.<\/p>\n

The jury deliberated for three days before acquitting Lil Durk, the 33-year-old Grammy-winning Chicago hip-hop artist best known for the 2023 hit \u201cAll My Life,\u201d of conspiracy, stalking resulting in death and murder for hire.<\/p>\n

Durk supporters including music stars Machine Gun Kelly<\/a> and Ye \u2014 the artist formerly known as Kanye West<\/a> \u2014 appeared in the audience during the two-week trial in downtown Los Angeles. Big groups of fans, livestreamers and other content creators gathered outside the courthouse.<\/p>\n

Durk\u2019s co-defendants Deandre Wilson and David Lindsey were convicted of conspiracy to commit stalking, stalking using a dangerous weapon and stalking resulting in death. But both were also acquitted of murder for hire. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank the jury for seeing there was no murder for hire,\u201d Wilson’s attorney Craig Harbaugh said in an email. \u201cWe are confident the remaining counts will not survive our pending motion for acquittal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attorneys for Durk and Lindsey did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment. <\/p>\n

Durk, whose legal name is Durk Banks, remained in custody, pending a forthcoming trial on a racketeering count that was severed from this trial. He has been jailed since his 2024 arrest. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors had alleged that Durk paid to have Rondo killed after someone from Rondo\u2019s entourage fatally shot rapper King Von, a close friend of Durk’s and a member of his Only The Family hip-hop collective, at an Atlanta nightclub in 2020. <\/p>\n

The prosecution alleged that in August 2022, a group of men flew to Los Angeles with funds provided by Durk, followed Rondo and his crew around, and three gunmen fired on his Escalade near the Beverly Center shopping mall in Los Angeles. Rondo survived, but his 24-year-old cousin, Saviay\u2019a Robinson, known as Lul Pab, was killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, the jury delivered justice to the family of Saviay\u2019a Robinson, finding defendants Deandre Wilson and David Lindsey guilty of stalking resulting in Mr. Robinson\u2019s death,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement. \u201cWhile we are disappointed with the jury\u2019s decision regarding Durk Banks, a.k.a. \u2018Lil Durk,\u2019 we look forward to presenting our evidence at his second trial.”<\/p>\n

Durk won a Grammy earlier that year for Best Melodic Rap Performance for \u201cAll My Life,\u201d which features J. Cole. He has been nominated for three other Grammys and was a featured performer on Drake\u2019s \u201cLaugh Now Cry Later.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — A federal jury on Friday found rapper Lil Durk not guilty of the attempted killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10286,723,967,18,134,5439,48,52,51,1015,47,50,49,15774,5437,17,16220],"class_list":["post-461577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-celebrity","tag-crime","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-homicide","tag-juries","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-shootings","tag-trials","tag-u-s-news","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461577","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=461577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}