Joseph ‘County’ Kernizan the suspect named in connection with the double murder of 50-year-old Wayne Hamilton more popular known as ‘Captain Barkey’ and his 36-year-old ex Tracy Bennett (on October 13), fatally shot himself last night in North West Miami Dade County as Police law enforcement closed in on him.

According to media reports, the suspect fled to Florida following the double murder at a Bronx New York hotel on Saturday where the Miami Police, NYPD Detectives and the Marshall Taskforce of New York, tracked down Kernizan at an apartment in South Florida. One Officer stated in a CBS4 News interview, that they swooped down on the location and called out persons from the apartment; while persons began to exit the location, shots were heard. A robot was used by the police to go into the apartment where a body was discovered along with weapons. On October 13, Captain Barkey and his female companion Tracy Bennett were exiting a motel when its suspected that Kernizan opened fire, killing him on the spot and then chased down his ex-girlfriend who pleaded for her life before she was also shot dead. The suspect then went back over to Captain Barkey’s body and pumped more shots into him to make sure that he was dead the Police stated.

New reports suggest that Barkey was warned by close friends about Joseph Kernizan. Fellow dancehall star Wickerman, who is also a very close friend of Barkey, says he warned the dancehall star about the dangers of getting involved with Bennett.  “He (Kernizan) had already broadsided their car, but Barkey never listened to me; the man wanted to kill the woman for a long time but he waited until he could get them together before he acted,” Wickerman said. NYPD Lieutenant, John Grimpel, told reporters that Kernizan, who was born in Haiti, possesses a very decorated criminal record, with 16 arrests that include assault, forgery, criminal possession of a weapon and robbery. Bennet, who share two children with Kernizan, had taken out a restraining order against prior to the murder..  Captain Barkey’s body will be flown to Jamaica.