Lil Durk faces deeper federal troubles as prosecutors unveil planned racketeering murder charges related to Quando Rondo’s attack.
Lil Durk is about to face new racketeering murder charges in Los Angeles, and prosecutors are working to keep co-defendant DeAndre Wilson behind bars.
Federal prosecutors disclosed the plan in a June 3 filing opposing Wilson’s request for release. They said they intend to bring additional charges, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to stalk.
This latest revelation raises the stakes of Duke’s federal murder-for-hire case. Durk, whose legal name is Durk Banks, is accused of helping mastermind a 2022 plot to assassinate Quando Rondo in Los Angeles.
The gunman missed Quindo Rondo but killed his cousin Saviya Allu Prabhu Robinson near the Beverly Center.
Wilson argued that the new charges could delay the trial and weaken the case for him to go to prison. Prosecutors fired back, saying the opposite was true.
“Defendant also falsely suggested that his role in the Los Angeles murders was ‘substantially subordinate’ to all other accused defendants.”
The government claimed Wilson helped Lil Decker recruit hit men from Chicago and traveled with them to California. Prosecutors said the group tracked Quando Rondo between Aug. 18 and 19, 2022, before the shooting.
Federal prosecutors said the crew used two vehicles to track Quindo Rondo before three co-defendants opened fire with multiple weapons, including machine guns.
The documents also say Wilson allegedly committed the Los Angeles murder while on bail for another Chicago murder. He was later acquitted, but prosecutors said his criminal history still showed danger.
Prosecutors also pointed to surveillance footage from shortly after Lul Prabhu was killed.
“The surveillance video shows that less than 45 minutes later, as SR’s bullet-riddled body was removed from the vehicle, the defendant was ordering food and laughing with his co-conspirators.”
The new charges appear to be related to two earlier incidents that were flagged in Wilson’s previous filings.
One of them was a shooting in 2019 near the Varsity restaurant in Atlanta. Durk was arrested in that case on charges including criminal attempt to murder, aggravated assault, gang activity and firearms offenses. Those charges were dropped in 2022 after prosecutors cited discretion in a motion to dismiss.
Another incident appears to be related to the January 2022 killing of Stephon Mack outside Chicago’s Roseland Community Center. Unsealed federal records linked Duke to the shooting, although he was not charged at the time with Mack’s killing.
The Quando Rondo connection adds another layer to the case.
Quando Rondo walked out of federal prison and entered a halfway house in Atlanta after serving 15 months of a 33-month sentence for drug trafficking. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess and distribute marijuana in 2024, paid a $44,000 fine and is scheduled to be fully released on Nov. 11.
He was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance after facing state drug and gang charges in Georgia.
Durk did not have the same success. He pleaded not guilty and remains in jail after a judge denied his request for bail. Prosecutors consider him a flight risk and a danger to the community.
The case is currently scheduled to go to trial in August 2026.
