Rapper Lil Wayne Fine After Hoax Gunshot Call, Miami Beach Police Department Tweets To Clear Confusion

Rapper Lil Wayne was a victim of a hoax call today. An unidentified caller called on a non-emergency line of the police department and claimed that people were shot at the rapper’s Miami waterfront home. The police took action immediately and rushed to his house to find everything fine, according to TMZ.

The Miami Beach Police Department received a call at 12:40 p.m. on their non-emergency line and the person told them that there were gunfire shots at Wayne’s exclusive Miami Beach island home, the police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez informed. The MBPD took to Twitter and informed panicky people that it was a “swatting” call and no one was injured in the alleged incident. They said that the department handles all such calls with utmost seriousness adding that the shootout hoax call was not a matter to be laughed out.

Police conducted a thorough search with the help of their K-9 dog squad in Wayne’s huge house that has eight bedrooms, 10 bathrooms. Besides, the officials also talked to the people employed in his house. The massive house with its rooftop pool and a boat dock was purchased by the rapper at $9.4 million, according to records available with the MBPD. The house was built in 2004 on Biscayne Bay, which has 120 feet of water.

Shortly after the incident, Wayne took to Twitter to inform his frenzied fans that he was fine. “Prank kall mane,” he wrote about the phoney call. Meanwhile, Chris Chambers, Wayne’s representative informed that the star was in a recording studio when the incident occurred. A similar incident happened in 2013 when it was reported in a section of the media that the rapper had died. In fact Wayne was hospitalised back then after suffering from multiple seizures. Then too he took to Twitter to connect with his fans and let them know that he was doing good. He thanked his fans several times for their concern and prayers.