OAN’s James Meyers
3:30 PM – Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Two men who were charged with gunning down Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay in New York City over 20 years ago were convicted on Tuesday of the unsolved killing.
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Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington were found guilty by a Brooklyn federal jury of murdering 37-year-old Jason Mizell inside his Queens music studio in what prosecutors claimed was a crime “motivated by greed and revenge.”
Washington, who was Mizell’s childhood friend, and Jordan, his godson, each face between 20-years-to-life. Prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty against them.
The ruling comes after a four-week trial in which jurors listened to testimonies from multiple witnesses who recounted the moment the pair killed the DJ inside his studio in Hollis on October 30, 2002.
The decades-long case can now finally be put to an end.
Prosecutors claimed throughout the trial that Mizell had acquired 22 pounds of cocaine that Washington, Jordan and others were going to distribute in Maryland.
Additionally, prosecutors alleged that Mizell informed Washington that he wouldn’t be part of the distribution, causing him to plot a “murder conspiracy” against the DJ.
“They murdered him in cold blood,” Seth DuCharme, then the acting United States attorney, said when charges were announced.
In 2007, when Washington was on trial for armed robberies, he was also mentioned at the time as a possible suspect in Mizell’s murder. However, he denied having any involvement in the death of Mizell.
Witnesses described Mizell as a generous person who supported his friends and family in times of need.
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