Lil Durk has been hit with another charge by the feds, this time for stalking, resulting in the death of Quando Rondo’s cousin, Lil Pab.
Federal prosecutors filed a new charge against the rapper on May 1 through a superseding indictment, accusing him of orchestrating the August 2022 murder of Saviay’a “Lul Pab” Robinson, the Chicago Tribune reports. During the shooting, Rondo was the real target, but Pab was hit instead.
The indictment came with a motion to keep Durk behind bars and push back against his legal team’s request to revisit his detention. Prosecutors also shut down claims that the case is unfairly constructed around Durk’s lyrics, which his family called “false evidence.”
“The recent developments in Durk’s legal case have brought a harsh truth to light: the government presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict him,” the statement, issued on Apr. 29, reads. “This isn’t justice. That’s a violation of the very system that’s supposed to protect all of us.”
“Durk has always used music to tell stories, to express pain to heal—and yet those same lyrics are now being used against him,” the statement continues. “We refuse to stay silent as Black artists continue to be criminalized for their creativity. Rap is art.”
The Chicago rapper is scheduled to appear in court on May 8 for a hearing that will decide whether he will be granted release from jail ahead of his trial.