The homicide of Lil Durk’s brother, Dontay “DThang” Banks Jr., stays a chilly case after he was shot and killed over 4 years in the past.
On June 6, 2021, DThang was outdoors of Membership O in Harvey, Unwell., when he was struck by gunfire and died. Few particulars have been launched in regards to the incident. There are stories that DThang could have been caught in crossfire. In response to Chicago journal, the Harvey Police Division declined to offer copies of the police stories, citing the continued investigation.
XXL has reached out to the Harvey Police Division for remark.
Whereas there have been no official updates from police, final December, the Chicago Tribune reported on an unsealed federal indictment that linked Durk to the homicide of a person named Stephon Mack, who was shot and killed after he exited the Youth Peace Middle in Chicago on Jan. 27, 2022. Authorities consider Mack was the chief of the Smashville faction of the Gangster Disciples, who could have been answerable for DThang’s demise.
In response to court docket data obtained by Chicago journal, a confidential informant advised the FBI that Dontay was shot by members of Dump Road, a GD faction affiliated with the gang’s Smashville clique.
Nevertheless, Durk, who’s presently getting ready to go to trial for an unrelated murder-for-hire case, has not been charged with Mack’s homicide. DThang’s demise got here six months after Lil Durk’s artist King Von was shot and killed in Atlanta in November of 2020.
