Lil Durk’s 10-year-old son allegedly shot his stepfather, Joshua Pippens, during a domestic dispute with the boy’s mother, according to reports.
Video footage captured the moment the child grabbed a gun from Pippens, aimed it at him, and fired a shot.
The footage shows Pippens in orange attempting to restrain the child’s mother in purple. The child, in a red t-shirt and shorts, then points the gun at Pippens and fires.
Following the shooting on July 1, Pippens shared his version of events on Instagram from his hospital bed. He claimed he was not the aggressor and that the child acted on his mother’s influence.
He wrote, “As y’all can see I was not the aggressor. And y’all also can see how I still had my gun on my hip. He grabbed my gun off my hip following his mom’s lead and tried to shoot me and then actually shot me.
“My gun was on my hip and I was trying to protect myself from getting shot. I never in a million years thought a kid I bought four wheelers and paid football leagues and everything would do this but he only knows what mom shows him. I still love him like he’s mine.”
Pippins suggested that the argument may have been about custody arrangements over a child the couple share.
“Whatever makes y’all feel better. That’s why I got custody of my kids and she don’t. Y’all so internet think [sic] god it was me that took the shot and not her,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, rapper Lil Durk is yet to react to the incident.
