(Photo: NYPD)
Police believe Shaquille Fuller, shown at left, is the man who killed Shemrod Isaac, an aspiring rapper, in broad daylight yesterday afternoon in the East Village.
Isaac was shot three times outside of his home at 20 Avenue D, around 4:30 p.m. His suspected killer is described as a 21-year-old resident of a neighboring building in the Lillian Wald Houses.
Teddy Rodriguez, a longtime friend, described the 33-year-old victim as “an upcoming rapper and a daddy and the most loyal man in the world.”
Isaac, who performed under the name Sham Da God, was never signed by a record label, but Rodriguez told us he was working toward signing with Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group.
Isaac’s beats aren’t hard to come by online – in a video for “It’s All Facts,” he’s surrounded by bikini-clad woman and wears a “Team Lower East Side” shirt. Another video, for “Regular,” shows him outside of a local housing project as he raps about “slinging the cane.”
A website streaming his mixtape included this bio of him: “One of the most talked about rappers today. Born and raised on the Lower East Side of New York City. Sham Da God brings out the hard in hardcore. Spitting the truth about grind and struggles and New York City life.”
Isaac wrote lyrics that mattered to him. In “Zone A,” a video for which was posted in November of 2012, he raps about the hardships endured by low-income residents of the Lower East Side when the area flooded during Hurricane Sandy. In another song, he describes hustling for the sake of his daughter, one of his two young children.
“Every time you see him he’s with Pampers, or formula, for his kid,” Johnathan Callabaro, a neighbor, told us yesterday. “He’s a nice guy, he’s always saying hi to the kids.”
Jasmine Valentine, a neighbor whom we met at the scene, told us Isaac spent time with her two autistic boys and said, “He always had this big, big hug for me.”
DNAinfo wrote earlier today that Isaac had been dropping off his daughter with her mother when he was gunned down.
On social media, RIPs and messages of condolences racked up.
Even the biggest gangstas have the biggest hearts #rip @ShamDaGod pic.twitter.com/JPmzQxkr6R
— Sheila Ruiz (@ShE_iSiT) February 24, 2015
