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
[Steel Frog Riddim 2010]
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.