{"id":78579,"date":"2026-09-11T21:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/us-rapper-lil-durk-found-not-guilty-of-murder-for-hire-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T21:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:54:51","slug":"us-rapper-lil-durk-found-not-guilty-of-murder-for-hire-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/us-rapper-lil-durk-found-not-guilty-of-murder-for-hire-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"US rapper Lil Durk found not guilty of murder-for-hire scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors accused musician, born Durk Banks, of putting bounty on fellow rapper in retaliation for friend\u2019s killing<\/p>\n<p>Chicago rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/25\/lil-durk-charged-murder-for-hire-quando-rondo\">Lil Durk<\/a> has been acquitted of all charges in a murder-for-hire scheme, in which a man was fatally gunned down in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/chicago-rapper-lil-durk-charged-superseding-indictment-alleging-murder-hire-plot-kill\">accused Lil Durk<\/a>, born Durk Banks, of putting a bounty on Atlanta rapper Tayquian Bowman\u2019s life in retaliation for the 2020 shooting death of Banks\u2019s friend, fellow Chicago rap star King Von.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/11\/lil-durk-not-guilty-murder-for-hire-scheme\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors accused musician, born Durk Banks, of putting bounty on fellow rapper in retaliation for friend\u2019s 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 &#8230; <a title=\"US rapper Lil Durk found not guilty of murder-for-hire scheme\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/us-rapper-lil-durk-found-not-guilty-of-murder-for-hire-scheme\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US rapper Lil Durk found not guilty of murder-for-hire scheme\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}