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Lil Durk Pleads Not Guilty to Murder-for-Hire Charges, Gets Trial Date

Lil Durk has pleaded not guilty to charges claiming he orchestrated a "murder for hire" plot that resulted in the death of Quando Rondo's cousin.

The 32-year-old artist, born Durk Banks, entered the plea Thursday and was remanded to a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles after receiving a tentative trial date of Jan. 7, 2025, online records and a spokesman with the U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed. Prosecutors claim Banks bears responsibility for the murder at the center of the indictment because he allegedly was seeking retaliation for the fatal shooting of rising Chicago rapper King Von, born Dayvon Bennett, outside an Atlanta club on Nov. 6, 2020. The agent said that “shortly after” officials made the Chicago arrests and started executing search warrants, the FBI was notified by U.S. Customs and Border Protection that Banks had been booked on separate one-way flights to Dubai and Switzerland, leaving out of the Miami area.

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