2 Men Convicted of Killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay Nearly 22 Years After Rapper’s Death

Published on February 28, 2024

NEW YORK—More than 20 years after Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay was gunned down in his recording studio, two men close to him were convicted Tuesday of murder, marking a moment authorities had long awaited in one of the hip-hop world’s most elusive cases. An anonymous Brooklyn federal jury found Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington guilty of killing the DJ in 2002 over what prosecutors characterized as revenge for a failed drug deal. The musician, born Jason Mizell, worked the turntables in Run-D.M.C. Like the slayings of rapper  Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. in the late 1990s, there were no arrests for years. Authorities were deluged with tips, rumors, and theories but struggled to get witnesses to open up....

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