Fatal ambush at rap studio

Assassins kill young S.I. entrepreneur as he opens door

A young entrepreneur answered the door to his Staten Island rap recording studio and was fatally ambushed by two armed assassins, one of whom carried what looked like an assault rife, chilling doorbell footage shows.

Jahade Chancey, 23, opened the front door of the Demonlow recording studio on Van Duzer St. near Metcalfe St. in Stapleton about 7 p.m. on Saturday and was met with the muzzles of two firearms, police said.

Video from the Ring doorbell camera shows one man, dressed in a hoodie and mask, carrying the rifle.

When the door opened, the rifleman rushed inside, followed by a second similarly dressed attacker armed with a handgun.

Once inside, the duo shot Chancey in the back multiple times, according to sources.

Medics took Chancey to Staten Island University Hospital, but he didn’t survive the attack. The killers fled.

“They took away a beautiful child,” said Chancey’s mother, Lashon Stockton, on Sunday, surrounded by family in her home in the Stapleton Houses.

“My son is an entertainer, what they call a hype man,” she explained, describing the ambitious, popular Chancey. “Always dancing. He loved old-school music.”

Demonlow Studios, which Chancey co-owned with friends, just opened in August, according to family, and was already making a name for itself.

The recording studio represents local rap artists Snoop, Bellagio and BroGod, according to its social media and website.

Snoop, one of Chancey’s close friends, just got a distribution deal this month.

“No children, never been in jail, I don’t think he ever had a fight,” his mother said. “He had no beef with anybody. His friends are great, so I know it wasn’t a setup.”

One killer was described as 5-feet-8, 150 pounds, with a tattoo under his eye and short dreadlocks. The other was described as 6 feet and wore black sweats and a dark jacket, sources said.

It is unclear whether Chancey, who lived less than a mile away in the Stapleton Houses, was the intended target, police said.

Chancey’s stunned friends at the studio tried to stop the killers, his mother said.

“When they were opening the door, the person was trying to push in, so they were holding the door,” she said. “They didn’t even see that he had a weapon.”

They called Stockton in a panic and she rushed to the hospital, where she met Chancey’s twin brother.

Hospital staff told her Chancey (inset) was conscious. Less than an hour later, she got the devastating news, and a heart-wrenching photo shows her holding her son’s bloodied hand.

Chancey’s family moved to the Stapleton Houses when he and his twin were 1.

“He was a mama’s boy,” Stockton said of her slain child. “All he wanted was to be his own boss. He said, ‘Ma, we’ve been in the projects for too long. Once we make it big, we’re out.’ “

Chancey’s aunt Kanona Martinez, 49, drove from Pennsylvania after hearing about the shooting.

“He was the best. Everybody’s favorite,” she said. “He was just himself. He knew what he wanted and he was driven for it.”

Stockton works for Safe Horizons, a victim services agency.

“I work with victims and now I’m a victim,” she said, facing the same horror many of her clients endure.

“I spent my whole career helping people get through issues. For me to be that person now, for me to have somebody sit down and counsel me,” she said, leaving her thoughts unspoken.

Love for the young man poured in through social media.

“This s—t really just broke my heart, he really didn’t deserve this,” read a Facebook post by Jess Dime.

“This is such a loss. He was a good kid ... didn’t deserve this,” read a Facebook post by Vicki Donnelly.

Stockton pleaded for anyone who knows the killers to turn them in.

“I’m just praying that someone will see that video, because you always have one person that does not like you that would love to see you underground,” Stockton said. “Somebody say something, please, anonymously.”