Jamaican DJ’s son stabbed to death on way home from Brooklyn laundromat

The son of a popular Jamaican dancehall DJ was fatally stabbed during a routine trip to the laundromat in Brooklyn — and now his devastated dad says he’s waiting to look the cowardly killers in their face.

Employees at the Lin Sunshine Laundromat in East Flatbush said Christopher Davey, 25, dropped off two bags of clothes there around 5:15 p.m. on Friday, and said he would be back shortly with two more bags to drop at the laundromat, near Church Ave. and E. 42nd St., but never returned.

“His mother gave him laundry,” said the victim’s grandmother, who didn’t want to be named. “She sent him to the laundromat. He drops it off. He left (to bring it) around 5:30 and she never heard until after 8. They called her, she was here and just leaving for work and the detectives came.”

Davey left the cleaners, then walked up the block on Albany Ave. near Linden Blvd., where he was knifed twice in the torso around 5:30 p.m. a few doors away from East Flatbush Ascend Charter Elementary School, cops said.

Medics rushed the gravely wounded young man to Kings County Hospital, where he died.

Davey lived about three blocks away from where he was stabbed.

The victim’s father, Michael Davey, 53, is a famous former Jamaican dancehall DJ known as Powerman, who had a string of hits in the 1990s. He now works as a nurse at Maimonides Hospital. The former vocal artist said he has seen young guys around the laundromat who look like they are trying to pick a fight.

“I went to that laundromat before and I see tough kids in their 20s coming up to me and screwing up their face like they want me to say something so they can jump off,” Michael Davey said. “But because I’m grown, I just don’t look at them.”

On Saturday, the victim’s two bags of laundry were still sitting in the back of the laundromat unwashed because the workers were never able to give him a ticket for them.

No arrests have been made. Police are looking for two men who were spotted fleeing the scene in a black sedan.

The victim’s father said his son’s death is “really hard.” He remains hopeful police will catch the suspects since detectives told him they have surveillance footage of them.

“They have every single person on camera,” Michael Davey said. “They have everything, so they’re gonna find them. I’m just gonna trust the law now. And just wait on their results. It was two boys stabbing him.

“Honestly, I just want to see them first to see what they look like. I want them to know that they did something bad,” he said. “They must have known that he would have died. He got multiple stabs. This man was going to the laundry. The laundry bags are still there. He wasn’t going to look for trouble to nobody.”

Michael said the last time he spoke with his son was last week, as he was working on getting him a job with a local pastor who owns a restaurant. But his son declined the job since it was only two days a week.

“He refused and say he don’t want that,” the father said. “So I tell him, ‘Well, if you don’t want that, that mean you don’t want to work. You just want me to giving you money every day, every day, and it can’t work. And I’m not going to talk to you no more.’ And I hung up my phone, and I wasn’t taking his call. He was just texting me all kind of things. And now I feel so guilty.”

Michael Davey noted that Christopher struggled with coping with the death of his half-brother Alonzo Edwards in May 2025, who he was close to.

“I think he smoked the weed because after his big brother died, he took it hard,” the father said.

Christopher Davey became passionate about cooking and expressed interest in wanting to open up a Jamaican restaurant, his father said.

“Every day he would send pictures with him cooking,” Michael Davey said. “Every day he said, ‘Dad, want to start our own restaurant?’ And I said, ‘Yes, son, you’re gonna start it.’ He wanted to open a Jamaican restaurant, soul food. That was his dream. Every time he cooked something, he would send a picture to me. He would make fried chicken, and he’d do macaroni and cheese.”

The former Jamaican dancehall “toaster” said he had been working at getting his family out of Brooklyn — but that, like everything, relocating “takes money.”

“Brooklyn is a very rough place,” he said. “They say Jamaica is bad, right? But Jamaica runs on that respect. Like you could go in some of the toughest areas or the roughest areas, and the baddest guys will say, ‘Good morning.’ Respect. In America, it’s not like that. When you look at the young kid, they just look ignorant and mad, say, ‘What you looking at?’ and just trying to find a way to pick an argument or a war with you.”