This week opening arguments for the Jam Master Jay murder trial were presented in New York, nearly 20 years after the RUN-DMC DJ was gunned down inside his Jamaica, Queens recording studio [click here if you missed that].
An eyewitness to the murder testified that Jay's godson, Karl Jordan Jr., was the trigger man...
From The Daily Mail
The accused killer of rap pioneer Jam Master Jay walked right up to the superstar in a Queens recording studio and gave a half handshake before shooting him dead and 'shrugging' off his limp body, a tearful witness testified.
'He walked directly to Jay and gave a potential handshake, a half a handshake,' Uriel 'Tony' Rincon said from a witness stand on Wednesday about Karl Jordan Jr. ‘That’s when I hear a couple of shots. I dropped my phone looked at him [Jordan] at the same time I see Jay fall.’
‘As I see Jay falling, I see Jordan shrug Jay off him.'
The killer fled the scene following the October 2002 shooting, and it wasn't until 2020 that prosecutors charged Jordan, 40, and Ronald Washington, 59, in the October 2002 killing of the Run-DMC star. The two men are now on trial in federal court over the murder.
Witnesses had been uncooperative for years leading the case to go cold. Rincon, who was shot himself in the encounter, admitted he was scared to name names - despite seeing the killer's tattoo as he fled the area.
Rincon detailed his fears about identifying the shooter and even said Jordan approached him at the rapper's funeral to ask if he saw the killer.
‘I said no. I felt uncomfortable that he was probing to see if I did,' Rincon said.
The friend of Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, fled New York City after the killing and it wasn't until 2017 that he told police what he saw.
‘I explained what I saw with the events that transpired and explained that I didn’t bring them up sooner because I was concerned for my mother.
‘His [Jay’s] wife and children needed closure and deserved to know what happened,' Rincon said as he cried throughout his testimony.
Rincon was the prosecution's star witness on Wednesday. He spent hours on the stand recounting the night Mizell was killed. Prosecutors have said the murder was a drug deal gone bad.
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