{"id":286364,"date":"2026-07-04T00:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286364\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T00:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:15:29","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-24-year-old-man-shot-dead-in-coney-island-police-search-for-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286364\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 24 Year Old Man Shot Dead In Coney Island Police Search For Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 24-year-old man was shot and killed in Coney Island Wednesday morning, according to the NYPD. Police have identified the victim as Truron Roachmartin.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded to a 911 call at 9:23 a.m. about a shooting near West 28th Street and Surf Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say Roachmartin was shot in the face and chest. EMS took him to NYU Langone Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Theresa, a neighbor, says she woke up to the sound of gunfire.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cOnly thing I heard is gunshots, but I thought it was fireworks at first because it was the 4th of July. But then I thought it\u2019s too early for this. But when I came down, I saw the tape, cops, detectives, and I thought, \u2018Oh my God, something happened,\u2019&#8221; said Theresa.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The shooter is described as a Black male wearing a blue mask who fled eastbound on West 28th Street.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old man was shot and killed in Coney Island Wednesday morning, according to the NYPD. Police have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-286364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}