India, Sept. 12 -- The public's interest in the 2020 shooting death of Chicago rapper King Von has increased after a federal jury found rapper Lil Durk not guilty in his widely publicized murder-for-hire trial on Friday.

Federal prosecutors had alleged that Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, financed a murder-for-hire plot targeting Quando Rondo in retaliation for King Von's death.

The alleged plot culminated in a 2022 shooting in Los Angeles that killed Saviay'a "Luh Pab" Robinson, Quando Rondo's cousin, while Rondo survived. A jury, however, found Banks not guilty on all counts.

However, the verdict does not change the legal status of King Von's homicide investigation, which ended years earlier without anyone being con...