Picture Credit score: Jeff Pinilla / CC by 3.0A 3rd man has now been charged within the homicide of Run-DMC’s Jam Grasp Jay — the most recent improvement in a case lengthy thought chilly.
Federal prosecutors in New York filed an indictment Tuesday charging 49-year-old Jay Bryant within the 2002 taking pictures demise of Jason Mizell, higher referred to as Run-DMC’s Jam Grasp Jay. The most recent improvement in a case that had languished for years, Bryant is the third particular person now to be charged in Mizell’s demise.
The opposite two males, Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr. have been indicted in August 2020 for his or her half within the demise of Mizell, who was shot within the head in his studio on October 30, 2002.
“Securing an indictment in a secret grand jury, making use of a particularly low burden of proof, is one factor. Proving it at trial is one other matter,” says Bryant’s lawyer, César de Castro, who reveals in an electronic mail that he and his consumer have solely simply realized of the costs. Bryant was in custody already on unrelated federal drug costs.
Through the indictment of Washington and Jordan, authorities mentioned Jay’s demise concerned a drug deal “gone dangerous.” In a letter filed with the courtroom on Tuesday, prosecutors mentioned Bryant and the 2 different males entered the constructing and fled after the taking pictures. In accordance with prosecutors, Bryant was seen coming into the constructing, and his DNA was recovered on the scene.
Jam Grasp Jay was one-third of the group Run-DMC, together with Joseph “Run” Simmons and Darryl “DMC” McDaniel, who dominated the early Eighties and helped to convey hip-hop music into the mainstream. Their hits included “King of Rock,” “It’s Difficult,” and a remix of Aerosmith’s “Stroll This Method.”
For years, Jay’s demise languished as a chilly case, with witnesses hesitant to talk up regardless of the supply of reward cash on the desk for info.