Rapper Lil Durk's 10-year-old son 'shoots his stepfather to protect his mother during domestic dispute' - as victim breaks his silence to claim 'I still love him like he's mine'

The 10-year-old-son of rapper Lil Durk allegedly changeable his stepfather during a home conflict pinch nan youngster's mother. 

Surveillance cameras captured nan infinitesimal nan kid allegedly grabbed nan limb from his stepdad, Joshua Pippens, and past aimed his ain weapon astatine him earlier firing. 

In video footage, Pippens seen successful orangish tin beryllium seen attempting to effort to restrain nan child's mother, wearing purple. 

In nan mediate of nan fracas, nan child, wearing a reddish t-shirt and shorts, intends what appears to beryllium a weapon straight astatine Pippens. 

The video past cuts arsenic nan brawl spills complete from nan sidewalk and into nan mediate of nan thoroughfare arsenic nan mates proceed to argue.

The kid past points nan limb astatine Pippens arsenic a azygous gunshot rings out. 

Pippens tin past beryllium seen falling to nan crushed aft being deed by a bullet. 

The shooting incident occurred connected July 1, since which clip Pippens has spoken retired from his infirmary bed.

Pippens wrote connected social media that he was not nan aggressor and that nan young kid was simply pursuing nan orders of his mother. 

As y'all tin spot I was not nan aggressor,' Pippens said online. 'And y'all besides tin spot really I still had my weapon connected my hip. He grabbed my weapon disconnected my hep pursuing his moms lead and tried to sprout maine and past really changeable me. 

'My weapon was connected my hep and I was trying to protect myself from getting shot,' he explained.

'I ne'er successful a cardinal years thought a kid I bought 4 wheelers and paid for shot leagues and everything would do this but he only knows what mom shows him,' Pippens said. 'I still emotion him for illustration he's mine.'

Pippens suggested that nan statement whitethorn person been astir custody arrangements complete a kid nan mates share. 

'Whatever makes y'all consciousness better. That's why I sewage custody of my kids and she don't. Y'all truthful net deliberation [sic] deity it was maine that took nan changeable and not her,' he wrote. 

'Listen, cipher is going to jailhouse aliases they would already beryllium there. I'm doing this for authorities complete my kids. Call maine what y'all want. And connected apical of that, this was astatine my momma's, successful beforehand of my momma, granny, and much kids. I believe y'all make it done y'all business that God gon' put y'all done for playing pinch me,' Pippens added. 

Meanwhile, Rapper Lil Durk, who has 10 children - 5 girls and 5 boys - has truthful acold not commented connected nan incident.