{"id":338869,"date":"2026-09-05T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338869\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:07:28","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-dancehall-artist-powerman-mourns-son-stabbed-to-death-while-heading-to-brooklyn-laundromat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338869\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Dancehall Artist Powerman Mourns Son Stabbed To Death While Heading To Brooklyn Laundromat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 25-year-old man was fatally stabbed in East Flatbush while on his way to a laundromat, according to his family.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Christopher Davey was attacked near 882 Albany Ave. shortly before 5:30 p.m. Friday. Officers found him with multiple stab wounds to his torso.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Davey was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators are searching for two men who left the scene in a car driving northbound on Albany Avenue following the stabbing. Police said one suspect was wearing a white tank top and blue jeans. A description of the second man was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Davey\u2019s father, Michael Davey, better known as veteran Jamaican dancehall artist Powerman, said Christopher\u2019s mother had sent him to a nearby laundromat when he encountered the two men less than a block away. Two small bags of laundry could be seen left at the crime scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Powerman paid tribute to his son on Facebook, calling Christopher\u2019s death the worst news he had ever received.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No arrests have been made, and a motive remains unclear. Police are asking anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old man was fatally stabbed in East Flatbush while on his way to a laundromat, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-338869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}