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“I will die but you will die first.”

Those were last words mobster Rocco Zito uttered as he pointed a firearm at his son-in-law Domenico Scopelliti, court heard Friday.

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Scopelliti recounted the shocking confrontation that culminated in Zito’s death while testifying at his own first-degree murder trial. Scopelliti has already admitting shooting Zito on Jan. 29, 2016 inside the Playfair Ave. home where they all lived.

Scopelliti, 54, who has pleaded not guilty, testified he fired in self-defence.

The prosecution is alleging Scopelliti shot the 87-year-old Zito in the heart after anger and frustration built up in the days leading to the slaying.

Scopelliti was in the basement and looking at his computer when Zito beckoned him to come upstairs.

When Scopelliti refused repeatedly, Zito’s requests turned insulting and then threatening.

Scopelliti called Zito, “a snitch and a rat” and his father-in-law dismissed him as “a nothing who’ll always be a nothing,” court heard.