Man Pleads Guilty to Role in Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay’s Murder

By Andrew Flanagan

Andrew Flanagan

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Nearly 24 years after the murder of Jam Master Jay, another conviction in the case has landed.

Jay Bryant, a 52-year-old resident of Far Rockaway, Queens, pleaded guilty yesterday to providing access to a studio in Queens where Jam Master Jay — born Jason Mizell, and the man largely responsible for Run-DMC’s culture-shifting sound — was recording. This allegedly allowed for Karl Jordan, Jr. and Ronald Washington to ambush and murder Mizell.

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