King Von's Fatal Night in Atlanta: Shootout Timeline, Hospitalization, and Autopsy Findings
The criminal proceedings took several unexpected turns. In August 2023, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office formally dismissed the state murder indictment against Timothy Leaks. Prosecutors acknowledged that under Georgia’s robust "defense of others" statutes, securing a conviction was unlikely because surveillance footage proved Bennett initiated the violent encounter against Bowman.
The conflict, however, did not conclude with the state dismissal. Retaliatory violence spilled outside of Georgia, culminating in an August 2022 shooting near the Beverly Center in Los Angeles that targeted Bowman’s cousin, Saviay'a Robinson, who was killed. Federal prosecutors within the Central District of California subsequently launched a racketeering and murder-for-hire investigation connecting OTF associates to the Los Angeles retaliation.
Federal agents alleged that bounty money was placed on Bowman in revenge for King Von’s death. This multi-year federal investigation led to high-profile arrests in late 2024, culminating in federal trial proceedings where Lil Durk (Durk Banks) stood accused of organizing the cross-country hit. A federal jury ultimately acquitted Banks of the murder-for-hire charges, yet the underlying evidence presented throughout the trial relied heavily on the original 2020 ballistic maps, autopsy photographs, and digital communications logged the morning Bennett died.
