R.I.P. Wayne Hamilton Aka Captain Barkey




A man and a woman were found dead early Saturday morning outside a motel in the Bronx.

Police say they found a 50-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman with gunshot wounds to the head in the parking lot of the Holiday Motel just after 3 a.m. Saturday. Both were pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.

They were later identify as Wayne Hamilton, aka popular Reggae/Dancehall artist Captain Barkey, who was shot to death alongside gal pal Tracy Bennett in a parking lot in front of the Bronx Holiday Motel, by Joseph Kernizan.T

It’s really sad, the popular Reggae/Dancehall singer, was gunned down with his girlfriend outside a Bronx hotel, had previously taunted his romantic rival and killer in a song.

In “Nah Lef Joe,” released in 2010, Wayne Hamilton, 50, sang of bedding a woman, then sang in the chorus, “She tell me she nah lef Joe.”

‘Nah Lef Joe’ CAPT BARKEY Truckback Records

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Friends said the song was aimed at Joseph Kernizan, 42, the man cops are now accusing for killing Hamilton and his lover Tracy Bennett early Saturday night, where the couple had booked a room.



People close to Hamilton had repeatedly cautioned him to break off the affair, warning him that Kernizan was “a serious man,” dancehall artist Wickerman told Jamaican entertainment news site One876Entertainment on Saturday.

Bennett and Hamilton were about to get in her car when cops say they were confronted by Kernizan, a music promoter from Long Island who went by the nickname of “Country.”

Check out Capt Barkey latest interview, from this past  August 2012, with Wickerman at Reggaejam 2012

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