Rapper Lil Durk was arrested Friday in connection with a murder-for-hire plot that unfolded near the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, federal authorities said.

The rapper, whose legal name is Durks Banks, conspired with five others to kill rival rapper TD, according to the Justice Department.

The attack resulted in a relative of the rival being shot dead at a gas station near the Beverly Center mall in Los Angeles on August 19, 2022.

Banks is the leader of the Chicago-based rap collective known as Only the Family or OTF.

Law enforcement officials believe the group also engages in violence at Banks’ direction to maintain their status with OTF, according to the complaint filed Thursday evening.

The feud stemmed from a murder in which a TB employee allegedly shot and killed an OTF rapper named Dayvon Bennett, a close friend of Banks, in November 2020, according to court documents.

In response to Bennett’s murder, several OTF members reportedly fired at least 18 rounds at TB’s vehicle, striking and killing a victim identified in court documents as “SR,” a family member traveling with TB.

After police made the arrests and executed search warrants on five other defendants in Chicago, the FBI learned that Banks had been booked on three international flights leaving the United States on Thursday.

Investigators arrested him near one of Miami’s departing airports.

“The arrest of Mr. Banks as he attempted to leave the United States is further evidence of the reach of the FBI and our extraordinary partners at the Los Angeles Police Department,” said Akil Davis, deputy director in charge of the United States. FBI Los Angeles. Angeles field office. “While you’re going through your life thinking you’ve ‘got away with it,’ the FBI is putting together the facts that will serve to your downfall.”

Banks remains in federal custody and the suspects are expected to be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

If convicted, Banks and the five defendants charged in the separate indictment each face a statutory maximum sentence of life in federal prison.