Lil Wayne's Brush With Death

In a recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine Lil Wayne provides an anecdote of how he almost died after shooting himself in the chest fifteen years ago.

However, Reporter Ramon Antonio Vargas of the Times Picayune interviewed the New Orleans officer who saved Lil Wayne’s life and provided a more in-depth account of that fateful day in 1994.

Robert Hoobler, 6-Ft 7inches tall and over 300 lbs, was off-duty when he heard the emergency call and drove his squad car to the scene.

According to police records, 12-year-old Dwayne Carter Jr. left school early because it was report card day. He bought a hamburger, fries and soft drink from Burger King on his way home to 3409 Monroe St., Apartment D. He sat on the mattress in the master bedroom and began eating. But he stopped when he noticed a blue-steel Taurus 9 mm handgun.

The pistol had been left there the previous day, by a man who came over to watch a football game.

Little Dwayne picked up the gun and began horsing around with it in front of a stereo blaring music. At about 1:15 p.m., the boy accidentally fired a bullet through his chest. The slug then shot out the lower left corner of a window.

Somehow, it missed every vital organ. But the boy was dying.

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