A Brooklyn drill rapper was shot to death about a block away from the Coney Island boardwalk Wednesday morning, according to police and the victim’s mother.
Truron Roach-Martin, 24, who performed under the name “Briscoe,” was shot in the face and chest near W. 28th St. and Surf Ave. about 9:20 a.m., police said.
“This world is crazy,” Roach-Martin’s mother, 53-year-old Christine Roach, told the Daily News. “He didn’t bother nobody. Mark my words, this murderer will be caught, and he will be prosecuted.”
Medics rushed him from the scene near the Riegelmann Boardwalk to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he died.
Roach described her son as an up-and-coming rapper who’d recently signed with a record label.
“That’s what all this was about. Envy and jealousy,” the victim’s mother said. “His career was taking off. He was a young black man coming up in the music business.”
“My son’s talent will live on,” she added.
The victim’s label, Rich Blocc Records, posted a tribute on Instagram Wednesday afternoon, captioning a “Damn baby boy I love ya soul.”
Roach-Martin lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant, but often traveled to Coney Island to visit his girlfriend, who lives in the neighborhood, his mother said.
“We don’t know what happened,” she said. “We’re very much affected by this loss. My family doesn’t go through things like this. Everybody is hurting.”
The victim leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter.
“My son was loved,” his mother said. “Find the person who killed my son.”
No arrests have been made.
The number of people wounded by gunfire in the 60th Precinct, which encompasses Coney Island, Sea Gate and Brighton Beach, is up 40% this year, with seven people shot through Sunday as compared to five wounded during the same period in 2025, NYPD stats show.
There was one murder in the precinct through Sunday, compared to three slayings by the same point last year, a 67% drop.