Pictured: Tracy Bennett, woman shot dead in hotel room with lover by ex-boyfriend as she begged for mercy

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Pictured: Tracy Bennett, woman shot dead in hotel room with lover by ex-boyfriend as she begged for mercy
Slain mother: Mother of three Bennett was shot down in cold blood by an ex-boyfriend as she begged for her life

Police are on the hunt for Joseph Keizan, who they suspect murdered his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in the parking lot of a Bronx motel early Saturday.

Keizan, 42, was waiting when Tracy Bennett, 38, and boyfriend Wayne Hamilton, 50 emerged from the Holiday Motel around 3:10 a.m, witnesses told police.

The jilted lover then fired more than two dozen bullets at the defenseless pair, killing them outside the Holiday Motel at 2291 New England Thruway.

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Tracy Bennett begged for her life before she was shot dead.

Joseph Keizan

On the run: Police suspect Joseph Keizan of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in cold blood

Bennet had time to scream: 'Don't do it! Don't do it!' before Keizan allegedly pulled the trigger

The incident took place after Keizan approached Hamilton, a reggaeton singer, outside the motel office at around 3.15am, police said.

Singing career: Hamilton, left, who went by the stage name Captain Barkey, was a Jamaica native who lived in Wisconsin

Singing career: Hamilton, left, who went by the stage name Captain Barkey, was a Jamaica native who lived in Wisconsin

Hamilton, who goes by the stage name Captain Barkey, was shot several times in the back of the head as he tried to run away.

Keizan then tued his attention to his 38-year-old girlfriend standing near a parked Toyota Camry with the motor running and shot her in the head as well.

Witnesses who were celebrating a birthday in a room upstairs said they overheard four to five gunshots break out, 1010 WINS reported, before running to see what was happening.

Joseph Keizan

Volatile: Pictured in this undated NYPD photo, neighbors said Joseph Keizan regularly had loud fights with Bennet

'I looked out my window and saw a lady standing there,' party guest Ricky Gugliotta told the New York Daily News.

'She was begging him not to shoot her, but then he shot her twice and she went down.'

Both Bennett and Hamilton were pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.

 

Keizan fled the scene in a blue or green sedan, sources told the Daily News.

Motel patron Augustine Mawugbe, 45, told DNAInfo he was asleep in his room when he heard gunshots.

Crime scene: The cold-blooded murders took place in the parking lot of Holiday Motel in The Bronx

Crime scene: The cold-blooded murders took place in the parking lot of Holiday Motel in The Bronx

Mawugbe said he looked outside and saw a tall man in a brown polo shirt firing a pistol.

‘He jumped into the car and drove away. He drove fast,’ he added. He said the man fired about ten times, and got into a light green Toyota Camry or Ford Taurus.

Bennett’s neighbors told the Daily News they often heard her and Keizan screaming at each other and police were regularly called to their tidy two-story home.

“We always heard them fighting,” said Carolina Manzano.

While neighbors described Bennett, a mother of three, as a sweet woman who was seen leaving her house every moing in nurse scrubs, they said Keizan stayed out late and often retued in flashy cars.

Hamilton's friends who stopped by the crime scene Saturday afteoon said he was originally from Jamaica but was now living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

‘I saw him last night at Memories playing dominoes,’ said Oneil Taylor, referring to a Bronx nightclub.

Another friend, an shuttle driver, said he had picked up Hamilton Friday from the airport and brought him to the Fenton Avenue club. 

 
Tragedy: Guests at the motel saw Hamilton and his girlfriend celebrating with a bottle of Champagne just hours before the murders

Tragedy: Guests at the motel saw Hamilton and his girlfriend celebrating with a bottle of Champagne just hours before the murders

The New York Times said that the victims were staying in a room on the motel’s second floor. Other guests reported seeing the slain couple several hours before the murders with their arms around one another.

Bennett was spotted by one patron holding a bottle of Champagne in a celebratory manner

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Mike Gallagher Freelance writer with a passion for travelling