Terence Vine, a former New Orleans rapper known as "Sporty T," was shot and killed in his bed early Tuesday when his FEMA trailer was riddled by gunfire, police said.

Police spokesman Garry Flot said police received a "shots fired" call around 4:20 a.m. When officers arrived, they found the exterior of Vine's trailer riddled with at least 28 bullet holes. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

“The noise was weird it wasn't like gunshots; it was like somebody was shooting a tin can,” said Vine’s sister, Michele, describing the sound of more than 28 bullets from an AK-47 hitting her brother’s trailer.

The hardest part for Michele was she found her nursing skills to be obsolete. “"I wish I could've save his life, but I've never seen the destruction that the gun did to him; I've never seen anything like that."

Police don't know who was carrying the AK-47 or why he or she wanted to kill him. Michele says her brother worked in construction.

There's also a nine-year-old boy who knows him as daddy who still doesn't know what happened. "I don't know what you tell this boy. He idolized his father," said Michele.

Sheila Vine, the victim's other sister, said Vine, 41, joined a rap trio known as the "Ninja Crew" when he was 14, recording three albums. He then signed as a solo artist with Big Boy Records and recorded more than a dozen albums with them. Eight years ago, he left the label and started his own Sporty Records, where he recorded later work.

Sheila Vine said her brother, a self-employed dry wall contractor, is the second member of the Ninja Crew to be murdered.

“This is the first incident of violence in our family,” said Michele. “We have not lost any cousin, any uncles, none of that. Our people have died of cancer, breast cancer. None of our people have been shot down like a dog, none of them. We are not that kind of family.”

(The Associated Press contributed to this story.)