Federal prosecutors and three co-defendants tied to Lil Durk are pushing to delay their upcoming murder for hire trial, asking a judge to move the start date to May 4. The request, reported by court reporter and journalist Meghann Cuniff, argues the case is too complex to properly prepare under the current timeline.
According to the filing, prosecutors and co-defendants Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Asa “Boogie” Houston, and David Brian Lindsey say the scope of evidence and number of parties involved make it unreasonable to meet pretrial and trial preparation requirements within Speedy Trial Act limits.
Durk, however, is not on board. He is opposing the delay and wants the trial to proceed as scheduled on January 20 in Los Angeles. The Chicago star has been jailed since October 2024 after being charged in a federal indictment that alleges he offered a bounty for the killing of rapper Quando Rondo, born Tyquian Terrel Bowman. Prosecutors say the alleged plot was retaliation after Bowman’s associate fatally shot Durk’s close friend at an Atlanta nightclub on November 6, 2020.
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Prosecutors and three of Lil Durk’s co-defendants want the federal trial in their murder-for-hire case delayed until May 4.
Durk says no and wants trial to proceed on Jan. 20 in Los Angeles as currently scheduled. https://t.co/r6aayJ7kvi pic.twitter.com/icIGTfjGdK
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) January 6, 2026
The indictment claims Durk and his co-defendants traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles in August 2022. Prosecutors allege Grant, Wilson, Houston, and Lindsey tracked Bowman across the city before opening fire with machine guns on his black Escalade at a gas station on Beverly Boulevard near the Beverly Center.
Bowman survived, but his cousin, Saviay’a Robinson, was killed in the shooting.
A judge has not yet ruled on the request to delay the trial, setting up a high stakes decision that could shape the timeline of one of hip hop’s most closely watched federal cases.
