The detail that might stick with people longest from Lil Durk’s murder-for-hire trial isn’t the alleged bounty itself, it’s that the man who says he helped carry it out claims he never saw a single dollar.
Keith Jones, known in OTF circles as Flacka, took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday and told the court that Durk still owes him for his role in the August 2022 attempted hit on Quando Rondo at a gas station in LA.
Jones testified that fellow Only The Family member Deandre “DeDe” Wilson reached out to him with the offer.
According to Jones, Wilson told him Durk had put up a $1 million bounty for anyone who managed to kill Rondo, and Wilson apparently made the pitch with some humor, comparing the payout to an Oprah giveaway: “If you catch him, you get a million, you get a million, you get a million.
The shooting that day did not kill Rondo. His cousin, Saviay’a “Lul Pab” Robinson, lost his life in the attack instead, a detail that has hung over this entire case since it first became public.
Jones says he repeatedly tried to collect what he was owed after the incident. He alleged that Durk had passed a portion of the money to a mutual associate named Boonie Moe for distribution, but the amount had already shrunk from $20,000 down to $10,000 by the time it was supposed to reach him.
The exchange between Jones and the prosecution laid out his reaction pretty clearly. When told he’d be getting $10,000, he said he looked at Boonie Moe and responded, “I thought it would be more than 10.”
Asked how he felt in that moment, Jones told the court, “I was surprised. I was kind of pissed.” When the prosecution asked if he ever received anything at all, his answer was flat: “No.”
Journalists Michael Blackshire and Trap Lore Ross, both covering the trial closely, relayed these details from inside the courtroom.
Their reporting has helped fill in the texture of a case that involves a web of OTF affiliates, alleged payments, and internal communications that prosecutors are working to connect directly to Durk.
Jones is now the second witness to testify against the rapper in this trial. Just last week, a witness identified as OTF Jam placed Durk in the frame more directly, linking him in court to the killing of Quando Rondo’s cousin.
Two witnesses in, and the prosecution appears to be building its case through people who were allegedly inside the operation themselves.
The fact that both witnesses are OTF-connected figures adds a complicated layer to how the jury might receive this testimony.
These are not outside observers, they are people who, by their own admission, were involved or at least adjacent to the events being described.
Durk’s defense will almost certainly use that against their credibility when it gets its turn.
The trial is still in progress, and more testimony is expected in the coming days.
