Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested in Florida on federal charges that he paid for the attempted revenge killing of rapper Quando Rondo in 2022 at a Los Angeles gas station, a shooting that left Rondo’s cousin dead.

Durk, 32, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder on his own behalf in the slaying of Saviay’a Robinson, 24, who was shot on Aug. 19, 2022, according to a statement on his own FBI liability released Friday.

Five other members of Durk’s Chicago-based rap collective, “Only the Family,” or “OTF,” were also arrested, and at least two more arrests are expected, according to court documents. Durk was arrested Thursday night in South Florida while trying to flee the country, the FBI says.

Durk, whose real name is Durk Banks, won a Grammy earlier this year for Best Melodic Rap Performance for his song “All My Life,” which featured J. Cole. He was also nominated three times and was a featured performer in Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later.”

Martin Estrada, the U.S. attorney for Los Angeles, called the shooting “a cold-blooded murder.”

“The shooting took place outdoors at a gas station at a busy intersection, putting many others in the area at risk,” Estrada said in a statement. “Violent gun crime like this is devastating to our community and we will have zero tolerance. for those who commit such cruel acts of violence.”

FBI Agent Sarah Corcoran said in her affidavit that OTF members engage “in violence, including murder and assault, under the direction of the banks and to maintain their status in the OTF.”

Durk’s representatives did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment Friday.

According to Corcoran’s affidavit and other federal court records, the shooting stems from the November 2020 slaying of OTF rapper King Von, 26, at an Atlanta nightclub after Von and Rondo argued. Records say a friend of Rondo’s pulled a gun and shot Von multiple times, killing him. Von, whose real name was Dayvon Bennett, had two hit singles, ″Crazy Story″ and ″Took Her to the O″.

Authorities say Durk made it known he would “pay a reward” to whoever killed Rondo, whose real name is Tyquian Bowman.

Nearly two years later, a murder plot quickly took place, Corcoran wrote.

On August 18, 2022, Durk’s associates learned that Rondo was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles. That day, Deandre Wilson, Keith Jones, David Lindsey, Asa Houston and an unnamed fifth suspect flew from Chicago to San Diego and then drove to Los Angeles using funds provided by Durk, Corcoran said.

That day, Durk texted an associate who arranged flights: “Do not book any flights under any name involving me.” Corcoran said there is video evidence that Durk was staying at a home in the San Fernando Valley that day.

Once in Los Angeles, the OTF members met Kayon Grant, who had flown there on a private jet. Grant, a top OTF associate, obtained hotel rooms for the men, purchased four ski masks and obtained two luxury sedans, court records say. Grant allegedly gave them to Jones, Lindsey and a third unnamed suspect, including one that had been turned into a machine gun.

The next day, the group followed Rondo and Robinson as they drove a Cadillac Escalade to a marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles, a clothing store in West Hollywood, and then to a gas station across from the Beverly Center.

There, Houston parked his car behind the station so that Jones, Lindsey, and the unnamed defendant could ambush Rondo. They got out and opened fire, killing Robinson, who was sitting in front of the Escalada, but missing Rondo, the indictment and news reports about the shooting say.

The suspects then went to an In-N-Out hamburger stand where they discussed payment with Grant and then flew home to Chicago from San Diego, Corcoran and other documents say. Wilson later paid Jones and Lindsey an undisclosed amount.

Grant, Jones, Lindsey, Wilson and Houston were arrested Thursday in Chicago on conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire charges. Attorney information for the men was not immediately available in court records.

After the arrests, Corcoran wrote, Durk booked two flights from South Florida airports — one to Dubai and one to Switzerland. He then booked a private flight to Italy but was arrested in Miami before he could board.

Durk and the other defendants are being held pending their transfer to Los Angeles.

In 2019, Durk and King Von were charged in Atlanta in a shooting that left a man injured in the leg. Prosecutors dropped the case against Durk in 2022, two years after Von’s murder. Durk had denied his involvement.

In 2014, Durk pleaded guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and criminal possession of a firearm after he was seen carrying a gun on a Chicago street. He was spared prison.

Two villages in Chicago’s western suburbs, Bellwood and Broadview, honored Durk last week and announced partnerships with his charity, the Neighborhood Heroes Foundation, to provide youth mentors.

But on Friday, Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson announced she had cut ties with Neighborhood Heroes and withdrawn the honorary village key given to Durk.

While acknowledging that Durk and other suspects are presumed innocent, village residents have “even higher moral and ethical standards of conduct,” Thompson wrote on the village’s Facebook page.

A phone message seeking comment from Bellwood Mayor Andre Harvey was left at his office.

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AP writer John O’Connor in Chicago contributed to this report.