Robert Hoobler had save the rapper’s life when, as a 12-year-old child, he had shot himself in the chest
, on Friday, said the parish’s coroner, Dr Gerry Cvitanovich. Details about a cause or manner of death weren’t immediately available, though he was dealing with various health problems in his final years.on the afternoon of 11 November 1994. That day, the boy – then known as Dwayne Carter Jr – left school early because it was report card day, and went home to eat a fast-food hamburger when he saw a 9mm pistol in the master bedroom of his family’s apartment.
Hoobler kicked the door down, found a boy in a bloodied T-shirt and jeans, and pleaded for dispatchers to send over an ambulance. There was none available, so Hoobler scooped the boy up and carried him to the back of a cruiser that a colleague of his drove to a hospital.that was his first ever on that fateful day, Hoobler recalled how he spoke to the boy the entire trip to keep him awake.
But the boy didn’t. Emergency room staffers saved his life. And he grew up to become the larger-than-life rapper Lil Wayne, who has sold more than 120m records across the world, has won five Grammy Awards and has become the chief executive officer of Young Money Entertainment, among a plethora of other accomplishments.
Over the years, Lil Wayne has made it clear he’d never forgotten Hoobler, the 6ft 7in cop whom he and others from his neighborhood nicknamed “Uncle Bob.” While accepting an award in 2018, the artist recounted having recently spoken to Hoobler and thanked the one-time officer for having “refused to let [him] die”.
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