Lil Durk murder-for-hire trial goes to jury after 13 days

Closing arguments concluded on 8 September 2026 in Lil Durk's federal murder-for-hire trial in downtown Los Angeles, sending the case to jurors after 13 days. Durk Banks, 33, and two co-defendants face conspiracy, stalking resulting in death, and murder-for-hire charges over a 2022 shooting near the Beverly Center that killed Saviay'a Robinson. Prosecutors cast Banks as funder of a revenge plot; his lawyers called the case "a tsunami of reasonable doubt."