A former New Orleans police officer who saved Lil Wayne’s life as a child, has died on the age of 65.

In line with a Fox8live.com report, revealed on Saturday (July 23), the previous New Orleans police officer, Robert Hoobler, was discovered lifeless at his dwelling in Jefferson Parish on Friday (July 22). Parish Coroner Dr. Gerry Cvitanovich confirmed Hoobler’s loss of life to the information outlet. The reason for his loss of life has not been disclosed.

For years, Weezy has at all times expressed his gratitude in the direction of Hoobler, who’s affectionally referred to as Uncle Bob, for saving his life as a baby when he shot himself in a suicide try.

On Nov. 11, 1994, Lil Wayne was 12 years previous on the time when he found a 9mm pistol in one of many bedrooms of his household’s condo and picked it up and fired a bullet into his chest. Amazingly, he was capable of name 911 and crawl to the entrance door the place he was bleeding and ready for assist. Hoobler was heading to an off-duty safety element when he heard the dispatcher report {that a} younger boy had suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound and wanted medical assist.

When the veteran officer arrived on the scene, he might hear Wayne’s faint cries for assist contained in the condo. Hoobler then kicked within the door and located him on the bottom in a bloodied T-shirt and denims. Hoobler referred to as for an ambulance, however none had been instantly accessible, so he picked up Wayne and rushed him to the hospital in his personal police cruiser.

In line with Fox8Live.com, Hoobler mentioned an ER nurse later informed him, “If y’all had waited [for an ambulance]…he would have died.”

Final August, in accordance with a TMZ report, Uncle Bob bumped into Weezy F. Child at a New Orleans radio present again in 2019 and the Younger Cash chief provided to assist him financially, however he declined.

XXL has reached out to the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Workplace and Lil Wayne’s reps for remark.

Watch Lil Wayne Pay Tribute to Uncle Bob on the 2018 BET Hip-Hop Awards