Godson, childhood friend convicted of gunning down Jam Master Jay two decades after Run DMC co-founder’s murder
NY Post
Two men charged with gunning down Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay in New York City more than 20 years ago were convicted Tuesday of the hip-hop icon’s long-unsolved slaying.
Ronald Washington, 59, and Karl Jordan Jr., 40, were found guilty by a Brooklyn federal jury of murdering the 37-year-old Jason Mizell inside his Queens music studio in what prosecutors said was a crime “motivated by greed and revenge.”
Washington, Mizell’s childhood friend, and Jordan, his godson, each face between 20 years-to-life behind bars at their sentencing.
The verdict followed a four-week trial in which jurors heard from several witnesses who recounted the moment the pair killed the legendary DJ inside his cramped 24/7 Studio in Hollis on Oct. 30, 2002.
It finally brings an end to the mystery surrounding Mizell’s shooting death, which went unsolved for decades.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors painted the killing as a revenge plot by Washington and Jordan after the pair were stiffed in a drug deal in Baltimore just months earlier.
