Lil Wayne is mourning the police officer who saved his life when he was only 12 years old.
The rapper vowed to ‘live for’ Robert Hoobler, who he called ‘Uncle Bob’ after the cop saved him from suicide.
“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,” Wayne wrote on Instagram.
The Lollipop hitmaker also shared a photo of Hoobler, adding: “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.”
In August, the police officer revealed that the rapper offered him financial assistance if he needed it when they met again in 2019.
He said that Wayne told him “all he has to do is say the word” but he hasn’t taken the Mirror hitmaker up on his offer.
The rapper previously opened up about his mental health, and the day he tried to use his mother’s gun to take his own life.
In an episode of Uncomfortable Conversations with Emmanuel Acho, he said: “I picked up the phone, I called the police. Yes, I knew where she put her gun and it was in her bedroom. And so I went in her bedroom, grabbed the gun. I already made the phone call, looked in the mirror.
“I pulled the trigger. [I shot] in my chest. I aimed for my heart, didn’t feel a thing though. So I wasn’t going through any pain, it was the shock.”
Wayne said that he woke up to the cops knocking. He then saw blood pouring out of his chest, making it easy for him to slide across the wooden floor.
Police then stepped over him and searched for weapons or drugs but Hoobler said: “Do you not see the baby on the ground with this hole in his chest?”
Wayne added: “He picked me up and kept saying ‘You’re not gonna die on me.’ And so he brought me to the hospital. I met him years later and he said to me, ‘I’m just happy to see I saved a life that mattered.’”
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