Lil Durk has been denied bail after he was linked to a second murder-for-hire, which allegedly took place in his hometown of Chicago.
Feds have connected Durk to the 2022 killing of 24-year-old Stephon Mack in Chicago…a suspected leader of a Chicago gang.
Lil Durk — already facing murder-for-hire charges in Los Angeles — to the fatal 2022 shooting of an alleged gang leader outside a youth center on Chicago’s South Side.
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – APRIL 7: Rapper Lil Durk performs during 2024 Dreamville Music Festival at Dorothea Dix Park on April 7, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Prince Williams/FilmMagic)
The shooting was reportedly in retaliation for the June 2021 killing of Durk’s brother, Dontay Banks, Jr. (aka DThang), who was gunned down outside of a nightclub.
Two men, Anthony Montgomery-Wilson and Preston Powell, have already been connected to Mack’s killing, but Durk has not been charged in this case. The connection to Durk was made after investigators obtained a warrant for their phone records. The words “Durk” and “payment” came up in messages.
“When the user of (the phone that was used as evidence) wrote, ‘We waiting he comes up here on the 17th,’ the user … was indicating that he was waiting for Lil Durk to come into town on February 17th to pay them for having murdered Mack,” FBI Special Agent Thomas Callaghan stated.
“We were obviously disappointed, but will continue to fight on,” Durk’s attorney Johnathan Brayman told The Chicago Tribune. “Mr. Banks remains confident and optimistic about the future. He deeply appreciates the outpouring of love and support he has felt since his arrest.”
