A New Orleans police officer Lil Wayne referred to as 'Uncle Bob' is dead. The rapper spent his career praising him after he saved his life.

A former New Orleans police officer who saved rapper Lil Wayne's life in 1994 was found dead in his Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, home on Friday. No cause of death has been specified, but a friend of Hoobler told local paper NOLA the former officer had been dealing with health problems after his legs were amputated following a car wreck. Lil Wayne called Hoobler "Uncle Bob" after he saved his life following a suicide attempt. Wayne — known at the time as Dwayne Carter Jr. — shot himself in the chest at 12 years old while he was home alone.