Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn’t have been born. Straight up.” 6.

Lil Wayne spoke out Monday about the death of the New Orleans police officer who helped save his life as a child. "U refused to let me die," the New Orleans-born rapper wrote on Instagram about 1 ...

I'll love and miss you both and live for us all." ORIGINAL STORY (July 24): A former New Orleans police officer who saved Lil Wayne’s life as a kid has died at the age of 65.

Lil Wayne is grieving the passing of Robert Hoobler, the former New Orleans cop who saved his life following a suicide attempt with a gun at 12 years old. The 65-year-old’s body was found in his ...

Robert Hoobler, a retired New Orleans police officer who helped save rapper Lil Wayne’s life when the musician shot himself at age 12, died Friday. He was 65.