According to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, Grammy Award-winning US rapper Lil Durk has been arrested on charges of murder-for-hire.

Police records seen by US media show that the star, real name Durk Devontay Banks, was arrested in Broward County, Florida, on Thursday evening and is being held without bail.

The arrest comes a day after five people with ties to Banks’ hip-hop group, Only The Family (OTF), were reportedly charged in Chicago in connection with a 2022 shooting that left rival rapper Quando Rondo’s cousin dead.

Lil Durk has had six albums in the top five of the US Billboard chart since 2019, and has also collaborated with top stars like Drake and J Cole on hit singles.

The 33-year-old from Chicago has received four Grammy Award nominations and won best melodic rap performance for All My Life, featuring J Cole, in February.

Lil Durk founded OTF in 2010 and the group is at the center of the city’s drill rap scene.

Officials allege that the five men charged on Wednesday staged the 2022 shooting in Los Angeles in direct retaliation for the 2020 death of rising rapper King Von, who was signed to OTF, US media report.

A friend of Quando Rondo was charged with King Von’s murder, but the charges were later dropped. Quando Rondo was not arrested or charged.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the new indictment against the five men alleges that an unnamed co-conspirator offered “money and lucrative music opportunities with OTF” to anyone who participated in Quando Rondo’s murder.

In 2022, some of the accused men allegedly shot at a car driven by Quando Rondo, his sister and his cousin Saviay’a Robinson.

Quando Rondo and his sister were unharmed, but Robinson died.

Earlier this month, the mother of another Chicago rapper, FBG Duck, reportedly filed a lawsuit accusing Lil Durk, OTF and King Von of being involved in his 2020 shooting death.

Meanwhile, two years ago, charges against Lil Durk, including attempted murder, were dropped following a non-fatal shooting in Atlanta in 2019.

The BBC has contacted Lil Durk’s representatives for comment.