Chicago rap superstar Lil Durk is now the target of a wrongful death lawsuit alleging he placed a hit on rapper Quando Rondo that culminated in the fatal shooting of his rival’s cousin — claims that piggyback criminal charges Lil Durk faces.
The lawsuit, filed this month in Cook County court, holds that Saviay’a Robinson was gunned down in the ill-fated “targeted attack” in Los Angeles on Aug. 19, 2022, according to a statement announcing the case. The suit names as defendants Lil Durk, his business manager, his record label Only the Family and a related company.
“The premature loss of Mr. Robinson has devastated his family and community,” said Warren Postman, one of the attorneys representing Robinson’s mother, Andrea Laquila Robinson. “We filed this lawsuit to hold those responsible accountable and to ensure his family receives the support they need during this difficult time.”
An attorney for Lil Durk didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Lil Durk, real name Durk Banks, was arrested in Miami in October on the same day the feds unsealed an indictment charging five men in a murder-for-hire scheme targeting Quando Rondo, or Tyquian Bowman. Lil Durk was soon charged, too.
Prosecutors say the plot was hatched in retaliation for the killing of Lil Durk’s protege, fellow Chicago rapper King Von, who was shot and killed during an altercation in Atlanta with Quando Rondo and his crew. They also say Lil Durk’s record label, Only the Family, doubled as a violent criminal enterprise whose members engaged in “murder and assault” at Lil Durk’s direction.
In placing a bounty on Quando Rondo, the feds say Lil Durk offered cash and “lucrative music opportunities with OTF.”
A credit card associated with the record label was used to book flights to Los Angeles and a hotel room, despite Lil Durk allegedly insisting he didn’t want a paper trail leading to him. Lil Durk traveled there separately on a private jet “to help coordinate the murder,” according to prosecutors.
On the day of the attack, Lil Durk’s five co-defendants and an unnamed co-conspirator “used two vehicles to track, stalk and attempt to kill [Quando Rondo] by gunfire — including with a fully automatic firearm.” Robinson, who also went by Lul Pab, was killed.
Lil Durk has pleaded not guilty to a list of charges.
Lil Durk and his label were previously named in another ongoing lawsuit stemming from the brazen killing of rapper FBG Duck on the Gold Coast in August 2020.
Federal prosecutors said the late King Von, real name Dayvon Bennett, had placed a hit on FBG Duck, or Carlton Weekly. Six members and associates of the O Block faction of the Black Disciples were convicted in the killing last year.