Rapper Nicki Minaj's cousin shot to death in Brooklyn

Rapper Nicki Minaj’s cousin was killed in a shooting in Brooklyn early Monday.

Nicholas Telemaque, 27, was shot several times in the chest at East 52nd Street and Farragut Road in East Flatbush at about 2:40 a.m., police said. He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

“My precious cousin. My baby. Killed last nite [sic],” Minaj tweeted late Monday.