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Closing Arguments Expected in Rapper's Murder-for-Hire Trial in LA
Defense witnesses said another man masterminded the alleged hit, and closing arguments are set to begin after the rapper’s team rested without calling him to testify.
Closing arguments are expected Tuesday in the trial of a Grammy-winning rapper and two others who are charged with stalking and killing a man in a bloody ambush near the Beverly Center in broad daylight four years ago. Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, is accused of setting in motion a plan to kill Tyquian Bowman, a rival Atlanta rapper known as Quando Rondo. Prosecutors contend Banks paid for a hit team to travel from Chicago to Los Angeles in August …