On Saturday evening, July 7, footage emerged showing Lil Durk’s 10-year-old son allegedly shooting his stepfather during a domestic dispute with his mother.
The video captures the child taking the gun from a man known as Reezy during the altercation and then shooting him. Social media reactions to the incident are mixed.
Reezy provided context by posting the camera footage on Instagram. “As you all can see, I was not the aggressor, and you 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. I advise you all to see it before they take it down,” he said.
In a separate post, Reezy added, “Listen, nobody is going to jail, or they would already be there. I’m doing this for rights over my kids. Call me what you want. On top of that, this was at my mom’s, in front of my mom’s granny and more kids. I pray you make it through the situation God put you through for playing with me. Same person you all keep commenting his name like he did something. I got that boy’s paperwork. You all want me to upload that too?”
While some online express sympathy for the child involved in this traumatic event, many others are making jokes about potential lyrics from Lil Durk addressing the altercation. One user on Twitter said, “Durk definitely bout to rap bout this,” while another commented, “Told my son, that guy touch ya mom, you better shoot him.”
In June, Lil Durk shared his commitment to end gun violence in the city of Chicago. In a recent episode of Big Facts podcast, he told the Atlanta hosts his number one goal.
“That’s the number one goal, to stop it,” said Durk. “But, the number one priority for us in the streets and politician-wise, is to stop the violence and slow it down as much as possible. It starts with everybody just coming together.”
More as the story develops.