This was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for Michael Davey and his family.<\/p>\n
Instead, Friday night, a stretch of Albany Avenue became the place his son Christopher was killed.<\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview Saturday evening, Davey says his son was heading to the laundromat when an argument escalated.<\/p>\n
“My boy was passing. They were fixing something on the sidewalk, and they got into an argument because they\u2019re young people. They ran inside with a knife and stabbed my boy to death. We can’t send our boy to the laundry no more,” Davey said.<\/p>\n
By Saturday, police were back going door-to-door as they searched for the two men.<\/p>\n
Officers also stood guard outside a home Davey believes is connected to them.<\/p>\n
“I can\u2019t believe he died right here in Brooklyn, and Albany, where he run up and down every day,” Davey said.<\/p>\n
Christopher came here from Jamaica with his father when he was 10 years old.<\/p>\n
His father says he loved to cook and dreamed of opening a Jamaican restaurant.<\/p>\n
“The place has changed. The neighborhood has changed. Everybody, they just get cross and they make so much problem,” Davey said.<\/p>\n
Davey, well-known in dance hall music scene as “Powerman,” also lost a stepson about a year ago.<\/p>\n
Christopher’s death is reaching some of Jamaica\u2019s biggest names.<\/p>\n
“I just want to say I’m sorry to hear this. And this great time, happy time, what happened is not supposed to happen,” said dancehall artist Beenie Man.<\/p>\n
Those happy times were supposed to include Monday’s parade.<\/p>\n
For this family, the celebration has stopped, but the support hasn’t.<\/p>\n
“It’s overwhelming support, and I love it, and I respect them, and I pray for their families,” Davey said.<\/p>\n
Police have not announced any arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for Michael Davey and his family. Instead, Friday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25,98,100,99,388,9,24,12,63,27,200],"class_list":["post-339683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-louis-finley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339683","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=339683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}