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The rapper Lil Durk was acquitted Friday on federal charges that he plotted to kill a rival in an ambush shooting that resulted in the death of another man.

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The New York Times left
The rapper Lil Durk was acquitted Friday on federal charges that he plotted to kill a rival in an ambush shooting that resulted in the death of another man.
The Washington Post left
Durk “Lil Durk” Banks, a 33-year-old rapper who rose up through the Chicago drill scene, was found not guilty of participating in a conspiracy to murder a rival rapper that resulted in the death of another man, multiple Los Angeles news outlets have reported.
The Guardian left
Prosecutors accused musician, born Durk Banks, of putting bounty on fellow rapper in retaliation for friend’s killing Chicago rapper Lil Durk has been acquitted of all charges in a murder-for-hire scheme, in which a man was fatally gunned down in 2022. Prosecutors had accused Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, of putting a bounty on Atlanta rapper Tayquian Bowman’s life in retaliation for the 2020 shooting death of Banks’s friend, fellow Chicago rap star King Von. Continue reading...
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Rapper Lil Durk acquitted of murder-for-hire at Los Angeles trial
Reuters
Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk acquitted in murder-for-hire trial reut.rs/4xQvXhX
CNN left
A federal jury found rapper Lil Durk not guilty of the attempted killing for hire of rival rapper Quando Rondo at a Los Angeles gas station, a shooting that resulted in the death of Rondo's cousin. https://cnn.it/3V9Xg8p