Jury reaches verdict in murder-for-hire trial alleging Lil Durk put bounty on life of Quando Rondo - abc7.com

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A jury found rapper Lil Durk not guilty on Friday of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the death of a man near the Beverly Center four years ago.

After three days of deliberations, the Los Angeles jury acquitted the Grammy-winning rapper on all federal charges in the 2022 ambush shooting.

During the trial, prosecutors told jurors that Lil Durk, whose legal name is Durk Banks, set in motion a plan to stalk, hunt and kill Tyquian Bowman, a rival Atlanta rapper known as Quando Rondo.

Federal prosecutors alleged that Banks planned, ordered and bankrolled the intended murder of Bowman as revenge after one of his associates killed a close friend of Banks', Dayvon "King Von" Bennett, in 2020.