The Jamaican DJ Captain Barkey, real name Wayne Hamilton, 50, was shot dead on Saturday night in the car park of the Holiday Motel in the Bronx (New York, USA), while he was with a woman named Tracy Bennett, 38, who was also killed.
According to the New York Post, the New York Police Department (NYPD) suspects a certain Joseph Kernizan, a Haitian promoter and former boyfriend of Tracy Bennett, of being behind this exceptionally violent double homicide.
Captain Barkey made his debut as a DJ with two Spanish Town sound systems, Stereo One and People's Choice, before scoring the hits Go Go Wine and Bun Fi Bun in the mid-1990s.
Barkey had also been part of a duo with Wickerman, with whom he recorded several hits, notably for King Jammy and Steelie & Clevie.
EDIT of 18/10/2012: according to police sources, Joseph Kernizan, the prime suspect in the double homicide of Captain Barkey and Tracy Bennett, killed himself on Tuesday in Miami as police had surrounded the apartment where he was.