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A 12 months after the case of hip-hop icon Jam Grasp Jay’s demise was lastly closed, a person convicted of the crime was reportedly stabbed in jail.
In accordance with the New York Every day Information, a struggle broke out within the MDC Brooklyn jail in Sundown Park on Saturday, Feb. 22. NYDN studies that the brawl was between rival gangs, and that two males had been hospitalized because of the struggle.
Karl Jordan, who was convicted final 12 months for the homicide of Jam Grasp Jay, was reportedly stabbed and survived the assault after being hospitalized. He was being held in jail whereas awaiting sentencing.
Jason “Jam Grasp Jay” Mizzel was one-third of Run-DMC, the formative rap group from Hollis, Queens that surfaced within the early Nineteen Eighties and proved the style’s industrial and inventive potentialities. They had been the primary hip-hop act to earn gold, platinum, and multi-platinum album certifications, the primary to land a nomination on the Grammys, and the primary to signal a significant endorsement deal, amongst different accomplishments. Mizzel was the group’s DJ, a job far more front-facing for hip-hop acts within the 80s earlier than they’d transfer to the background in subsequent many years. Fellow rap legend Chuck D, of the group Public Enemy, described him as “the middle of Run-D.M.C. …He held all of it collectively: the look, the angle, the road knowledge, the credibility, the path.”
Mizzel was murdered at his Jamaica, Queens recording studio in October 2002 beneath what had been initially mysterious circumstances. Whereas police investigations and in depth reporting sought to place the items collectively, it wasn’t till 2020 that two males, Karl Jordan and Ronald “Tinard” Washington had been indicted for his homicide. Prosecutors made the case that the 2 males plotted to kill Mizell after he lower them out of a drug deal. In accordance with testimony in Brooklyn Federal Courtroom, Washington was watching the door whereas Jordan fired the deadly shot. Jordan and Washington had been convicted in February 2024, and Jordan was being held within the MDC Brooklyn jail as he awaited his sentencing.
Jordan and Washington’s attorneys have filed a movement to dismiss the case, claiming that Jay Bryant, a 3rd man who was indicted in 2023, is the actual assassin. In accordance with reporting by the New York Every day Information, Bryant’s uncle testified in courtroom that Bryant confessed to the homicide to him, and his hat was discovered within the studio along with his DNA on it after the crime. Prosecutors have mentioned he let the 2 males contained in the studio by the rear door.
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