Chicago rapper Lil Durk arrested in Florida on murder for hire charges

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CHICAGO -- Chicago-born rapper Lil Durk appeared before a federal judge in Florida Friday morning.

Coming off his first Grammy win earlier this year rapper 'Lil Durk' was arrested Thursday and is now facing charges in connection to a murder-for-hire plot.

The 32-year-old's name is Durk Banks. U.S. Marshals took him into custody on Thursday in Broward County, Florida.

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Banks appeared in federal bond court Friday morning.



Details about the rapper's arrest or charges have not been released, but according to court documents, five members of Durk's 'Only the Family group, also known as "OTF," were indicted by a California grand jury this week on charges of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.

Banks' arrest comes just weeks after he was named in a lawsuit, which alleges the rapper had a hand in a 2020 gang-related deadly shooting of Chicago rapper. FBG Duck, born Carlton Weekly.

Duck was killed in the Gold Coast neighborhood by a group of masked men as he waited to enter a high-end store.

Six purported gang members were convicted of carrying out Weekly's murder.

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Weekly's mother spoke with ABC7's Karen Jordan after filing the lawsuit.



"Not a day goes by that I don't think about him and the life that was taken from him." LaSheena Weekly, FBG Duck's mother, said.

Lil Durk and his team did not comment on that lawsuit.

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