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Lil Wayne mourns death of NOLA cop who saved his life as a child

 

Award winning American rapper, Lil Wayne has paid tribute to Robert Hoobler, a former New Orleans police officer who saved the rapper’s life following a suicide attempt when he shot himself at the age of 12.

The officer died at the age of 65 on Friday, July 22. Hoobler was found dead in his home in Louisiana last Friday, and had been dealing with health issues following a car accident and a struggle with diabetes.

Details about the cause of his death hasn't been revealed yet.

However, Hoobler’s grandson Daniel Nelson said that he suffered from lingering health issues stemming from a car accident and struggled with diabetes, which eventually led to both of his legs being amputated.

Sharing a photo of Hoobler, Wayne posted on Instagram: 'Everything happens for a reason. I was dying when I met u at this very spot. U refused to let me die. Everything that doesn't happen, doesn't happen for a reason. 


'That reason being you and faith. RIP uncle Bob. Aunt Kathie been waiting for u. I’ll love & miss u both and live for us all,” he concluded.

Last year, during an interview with former NFL star Emmanuel Acho, Lil Wayne talked about his struggles with mental health as a child, and touched on his suicide attempt in 1994. The rapper, then 12 years old, called the police before taking his mother’s gun from her bedroom and shooting himself in the chest.


Wayne said that police arrived on the scene but jumped over him, focusing on the weapon and drugs that were in the house. Hoobler, who was off-duty at the time but heard a dispatch about the incident from his police radio, showed up and immediately turned his attention to Wayne.

“It took a guy named Uncle Bob, he ran up there and when he got to the top of the steps and saw me there. He refused to even step over me,” Wayne said. “One of them yelled, ‘I got the drugs,’ and that’s when he went crazy. He was like, ‘I don’t give a fuck about no drugs! Do you not see the baby on the ground?!'”


The rapper went on to say that Hoobler’s fellow officers said they had called an ambulance, but Hoobler recognised more urgent action was needed. “He called one of their names [and said] ‘Your car, now!’ Picked me up and just kept telling me some shit like, ‘You’re not gonna die on me, you’re not gonna die on me.’… He got me to the hospital, he brought me there and made sure I was good.”


The rapper and Hoobler kept in contact and privately reunited multiple times over the years. In 2020, amid protests against police brutality and racism following the murder of George Floyd by police, Wayne discussed how his perspective on police was shaped by Hoobler. “My life was saved by a white cop. Uncle Bob,” the rapper said during an episode of his Beats 1 show. “Therefore, you have to understand the way I view police, period.”

Hoobler left law enforcement in 2012 when he was charged with malfeasance, after being accused of shocking a man with a stun gun and using racial slurs during an arrest. He was convicted and served probation, and was later pardoned due to being a first-time offender.


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