Snoop Dogg has had a few traumatic experiences with family members. When he was around 8 years old, one of his uncles was the target of a drive-by shooting while staying at Snoop’s house. “Hearing them gunshots, that s*** f***ed me up,” the rapper said on “From the Streets to the Suites.” No one was injured, but the experience kept young Snoop up at night as he worried about whether the gunmen would return.
This wasn’t the only time Snoop’s family was impacted by gun violence. Of the murder of an unnamed relative, he told The Guardian in 2013, “When that happens, it’s a horrible feeling. You never want to feel that.” Snoop tried to prevent his family from suffering another tragedy in 2002, when his brother-in-law, Germaine Fuller, was involved in a standoff with Las Vegas police. Fuller, the brother of Snoop’s wife, Shante Broadus, shot and injured one officer, fired upon another, and barricaded himself inside an apartment, where he held two residents hostage.
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During the 11 hours the standoff lasted, Fuller reportedly asked to speak to Snoop, who recorded a message pleading with him to surrender. “Do what they say. We’ve got lawyers to take care of this. We’ll take care of it,” the rapper said in the recording, per the Las Vegas Sun. While the hostages escaped unharmed, Fuller was found dead inside the apartment. It was later determined that his cause of death was suicide.
