Charleston White has offered a blunt explanation for why the mother of Lil Pab, the slain associate of Quando Rondo, lent her support to Lil Durk’s bid for bond.
According to the outspoken commentator, she does not hold Durk’s camp responsible for her son’s death. She holds Quando and his circle responsible.
The discussion arose amid news of a bond hearing for Durk, which reportedly drew letters of support from Jay-Z, J. Cole and Lil Pab’s mother.
White dismissed the celebrity names and said only one letter carried real weight. “Once she speak, we all need to be quiet,” he said.
Asked why she would stand behind Durk, White did not hesitate. “She don’t fault them. She blamed Quando,” he said.
He pointed to what he described as her most recent statement, in which, by his account, she suggested that her son would have been safer had she chosen his friends herself.
White framed the conflict as a mismatch. He described Durk’s side as seasoned and organized, and Quando’s crew as out of its depth.
“These little puppies out of Savannah, Georgia,” he said, adding that he had visited the city, met the family and described the young man as coming from a good, Christian upbringing.
He argued that Lil Pab and those around him were exposed in Los Angeles. “They was open prey out here in LA,” he said. “Y’all aren’t hunters. Y’all on defense,” he added, contending that the other side was moving on both offense and defense.
White insisted his criticism did not come from a place of animosity. “I love Quando Rondo to death,” he said, extending the same affection to Lil Pab’s mother.
Still, he questioned Quando’s public grief given the conflict he was involved in, and suggested that a grieving mother’s anger would naturally turn toward the people her son was with.
“Everybody know the stages of grief,” he said, noting that anger is part of that process and that people start searching for someone to blame.
The conversation then turned to legal arguments surrounding the case. White addressed a claim that a stalking conviction should not stand because Quando, not Lil Pab, was the alleged target.
He rejected the reasoning, noting that both men were in the car that was fired upon. “They’re both victims of a stalking case,” he said.
He also suggested that any attempt to lean on developments in Durk’s case would not help, since the other party’s case came first. “It’s going to be hard to undo that,” he said.
From there, White weighed in on the murder case against Yella Beezy in Dallas. He said prosecutors have relied on bank records showing large cash withdrawals, and acknowledged that such evidence is not conclusive on its own. He drew a contrast with Durk’s situation. “They didn’t have no transactional money in Durk’s case,” he said.
White explained that Beezy’s defense has argued that the money in question did not match. “My client had all brand new money,” he said, summarizing the lawyer’s position. Beyond the bank statements, he suggested, the case would not even be headed to trial.
He also noted that a witness identified as Key One had initially indicated he would testify.
White believes prosecutors are reluctant to drop the case because doing so would be an embarrassment, while Beezy, represented by attorney Toby Shook, has no intention of accepting a deal. “He’s not going to take a plea,” he said, adding that, in Shook’s view, “nobody gets probation for murder.”
White closed by pointing to a detective he expects to be central to the prosecution’s strategy, calling him “a prosecutor’s dream witness” and saying the state is banking on him to make its case in front of the jury.
