Two Men Charged In Cold Case Murder Of Jam Master Jay

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(L to R) Jason «Jam Master Jay Mizell, Darryl «DMC McDaniels and Joseph «DJ Run Simmons of the hip-hop group RUN-DMC. Federal prosecutors announced charges in Mizell’s death, which had gone unsolved for nearly two decades.





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Mizell’s murder received on-and-off attention from authorities as well as the media. The case was the center of a 2018 episode of of the Netflix documentary series ReMastered, that looked at not just the loose threads in the murder case but the lack of urgency from law enforcement in solving the killing.

If charged, both Jordan and Washington face at least a 20 year prison sentence. Washington is currently serving time for robbery.