New York police have confirmed that a Jamaican dancehall artiste who tried to break up a fight outside a Queens banquet hall was the city’s first 2011 murder victim, the Caribbean Media Corporation says.
The police said an unidentified gunman shot and killed Dwayne Haughton, 29, early on Saturday morning in the Richmond Hill section of Queens.
CMC said that Haughton, who carried the stage name “Bobby Genius”, was walking a friend to her car after she got into an argument with another woman.
The police said they found Haughton bleeding from neck and chest wounds, and he died a short time later at Jamaica Medical Center in Queens.
Haughton had gone to the party to pick up his girlfriend, Kadian Allen, when he saw a female friend get into a scuffle with another woman.
“I heard gunshots,” Allen said, when I ran out of the car, he was just laying there on his back, just laying there not moving, CMC reported.
“How do I tell my son someone shot his father because he was walking a friend to her car,” Allen asked
The New York Daily News said he was a father to two children, and had one previous arrest for weapons possession.
