A 29-year-old musician on the cusp of the big time was found shot dead early yesterday in his Brooklyn home.
Drummer Troy Young, hit with a bullet that pierced his heart, was found on the floor of his basement apartment on Fourth Street in Carroll Gardens when police arrived shortly after midnight.
The door to the apartment was unlocked and nothing appeared to have been stolen, police said.
Cops went to the apartment after a friend reported Young hadn’t been seen in several days. Acquaintances said they last saw him alive Tuesday.
“Troy was very hard working, he went to New York to ‘go where the big time is,’ ” said his grieving father Ed.
Young sometimes played with The Spines, a Long Island band, and may have met his recent girlfriend at one of his gigs last month, his father said.
Young’s sister, Allison Marotta, said her brother had a girlfriend who also had another relationship.
“This guy has been in Troy’s face a couple of times,” she said.
No arrests were made or suspects named.