Three years ago two men from Queens, NY were arrested for the murder of Run DMC DJ Jam Master Jay [click here if you missed that].
A third man has been indicted in the decades old case...
From OK Magazine
A third man named Jay Bryant has been charged in connection with the 2002 shooting death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, prosecutors revealed on Tuesday, May 30.
Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York filed a superseding indictment, charging the 49-year-old in the death of Jason "Jay" Mizell. He is currently being held in unrelated federal drug charges and will be arraigned on the murder charge at a different time.
Two other men, Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr., were indicted in August 2020 for the death of Jay. (He was shot in the head in his studio on October 30, 2002.)
“This is a case about a murder that for nearly two decades has gone unanswered,” Seth D. DuCharme, the acting U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said at the time. “Today we begin to answer that question of who killed Jason Mizell and why.”
“Securing an indictment in a secret grand jury, applying an extremely low burden of proof, is one thing. Proving it at trial is another matter,” Bryant's attorney, César de Castro, said in an email after Bryant's alleged involvement was revealed.
When the other two men were indicted, authorities said Jay's death occurred due to a drug deal gone bad.
In a letter filed with the court on Tuesday, prosecutors said Bryant and two other men entered a building that evening Jay was shot, but they later fled the scene of the alleged crime. They say Bryant went back into the building, where his DNA was later found.
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