On Friday, Katrina Thompson, the mayor of Broadview, Illinois, announced she has revoked the honorary key given to rapper Lil Durk.
Broadview is a village in Cook County, located 20 minutes from Chicago.
In a Facebook post, Thompson acknowledged Durk is presumed innocent, but she said Broadview residents have “even higher moral and ethical standards of behavior. And our public partners must also reflect the same uncompromising standards.”
“As mayor, protecting Broadview’s interests and upholding the values of residents is job number one.”
Durk (born Durk Banks) was arrested Thursday night in South Florida as he attempted to flee the country, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Durk, 32, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. He is being held without bond.
The drill rapper’s arrest comes a day after five other members of his Chicago-based rap collective, “Only the Family” or OTF, were also arrested.
The Grammy-winning rapper faces federal charges that he paid for the attempted murder of rapper Quando Rondo in Los Angeles in 2022.
The shooters missed Quando Rondo but they killed his cousin Saviay’a Robinson, 24, a.k.a. “Lul Pab”, at a gas station across from the Beverly Center on Aug. 19, 2022.
During the 2-year investigation the feds connected the dots to Lil Durk through receipts linked to his credit card. The receipts showed payments for airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars for the gunmen in California.
According to the indictment, on Aug. 18, 2022 Lil Durk texted an associate: “Don’t book no flights under no names involved wit me.”
Durk won a Grammy in August for Best Melodic Rap Performance for his song “All My Life,” which featured rapper J. Cole.
FBI Agent Sarah Corcoran said in her affidavit that OTF members engage “in violence, including murder and assault, at the direction of Banks and to maintain their status in OTF.”
Corcoran said the shooting was in retaliation for the 2020 murder of Chicago drill rapper King Von.
King Von (born Dayvon Daquan Bennett) was fatally shot during a fistfight with Rondo outside the Monaco Hookah Lounge in Atlanta, authorities said.
The shooter, an aspiring rapper named Lul Timm, was arrested in 2020 for Von’s murder, but Fulton County DA Fani Willis dropped all charges against him.
Durk and King Von were previously arrested in Atlanta in 2019 on attempted murder charges. Despite video evidence of Durk and Von shooting at a fleeing gang member, Willis dropped attempted murder charges against Durk.
As the walls closed in on him, Lil Durk claimed he was a Muslim and he inspired a gangbanger to give his life to God.
“Don’t label me nothing outside of A MAN A FATHER and A 1000% Muslim,” Lil Durk wrote in a post on Instagram in August.
Chicago rapper Lil Durk inspires gang member to leaves streets alone, and give life to God ????
“Satan, you can’t have him.”pic.twitter.com/zOJyDMkgpt
— Kollege Kidd (@KollegeKidd) August 22, 2024
