Two Men Found Guilty in Murder of Run-D.M.C. DJ
A jury found two men, Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington, guilty of murdering the pioneering and world-famous DJ Jam Master Jay in 2002 at the conclusion of a federal trial on Tuesday. The verdict ends decades of speculation about why Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, had been killed. The jurors delivered the decision after weeks of testimony at the U.S. District Court – Eastern Division of New York courthouse in Brooklyn.
In 2020, U.S. attorneys indicted Jordan and Washington of conspiring to kill and…