Rapper Lil Durk has broken his silence after his 10-year-old son allegedly shot his stepfather during a domestic dispute.
Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Banks and has 10 children — five girls and five boys — made a cryptic comment about X early Monday morning.
“Save that money for those kids, kids, kids, kids,” he tweeted, possibly referring to the drama his child appeared to be at the center of.
Joshua Pippens shared surveillance footage of the moment he was allegedly shot by his stepson, who is believed to have been protecting his mother
He has since shared several updates on social media, including the shocking claim that the child who allegedly shot him and two others has been taken from their mother.
Rapper Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Banks, made a cryptic comment about X early Monday morning
Rapper Lil Durk has broken his silence after his 10-year-old son allegedly shot his stepfather, sending him to the hospital
A document from the Indiana Department of Child Services posted by Pippens shows that the agency has recommended that the boy’s mother, Travonna Collier, no longer be allowed to care for the child.
In the meantime, advice has been given to allow Pippens and Lil Durk, the boy’s biological father, to visit the boy alone.
Despite ending up in hospital and needing surgery, Pippens has since said that He still loves the boy as if he were his own child.
“I still love him like he’s my own,” he wrote in a post explaining how the incident happened.
“I had a gun on my hip and I was trying to protect myself from gunshot wounds,” he said.
“As you can see, I was not the aggressor,” Pippens said. “And you can also see I still had my gun on my hip. He took my gun off my hip, followed his mother’s lead and tried to shoot me, and then he actually shot me.
“I never thought a kid with four-wheelers, soccer leagues and all that entails would do this but all he knows is he loves his mama and I still love him like he was my own,” Pippens wrote in an Instagram story.
Pippens also suggested that the dispute between him and the boy’s mother may have been over custody of a child the couple have together.
Joshua Pippens, the boy’s stepfather, posted about the incident on social media
Pippens told social media users from his hospital bed that he was not the aggressor and that the young child was simply following his mother’s orders.
“Whatever makes you feel better. That’s why I have custody of my children and they don’t. Y’all think like that on the internet [sic] “God, I was the one who shot and not her,” he wrote.
“Listen, nobody goes to jail or they would be there already. I’m doing this for rights over my children. Call me whatever you want. And besides, this was with my mother, for my mother, my grandmother, and more children. I pray that you guys get through whatever situation God is putting you all through because you played with me,” Pippens added.
The Indiana Department of Child Services document provides more details about how the July 1 fight unfolded when the boy returned to Pippens’ mother’s home just before 9 p.m.
When the child arrived, Collier and Pippens were already arguing outside the house, leading to the child urging his mother to stop fighting.
The boy then got out of the car and pushed Pippens, the document said.
In the midst of the commotion, the child, pictured in red, reportedly points what appears to be a gun at Pippens, who is wearing the orange T-shirt
The video then cuts to the argument continuing in the middle of the street, as the child reportedly fires the gun
The young woman told police that Collier and Pippens both had guns, “but hers didn’t go off.”
The child told officers that Pippens had tried to grab Collier’s gun, then explained how his stepfather’s gun had fallen to the ground during the struggle.
The boy admitted in the document that he grabbed the gun and shot Pippens to protect Collier, his mother.
The boy later said he was afraid she would be shot.
When police asked the boy if there had been any domestic violence in the past, he told officers that the two often yelled at each other.
A document from the Indiana Department of Child Services also posted online by Pippens shows that the agency has recommended that the boy’s mother, Travonna Collier, pictured, no longer be allowed to care for the child.
He said his mother would “get very angry very quickly.”
Video footage shows Pippens, dressed in orange, trying to hold down the child’s mother, who is dressed in purple.
In the midst of the commotion, the child, dressed in a red T-shirt and shorts, points what appears to be a gun directly at Pippens.
The video cuts to another scene, where the fight moves from the sidewalk to the middle of the street, with the couple still arguing.
The child then points the gun at Pippens as a single shot rings out.
Pippens is then seen falling to the ground after being hit by a bullet.