Two Indicted in Connection With Murder of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe 2002 murder of Jam Master Jay, DJ for the pioneering hip-hop group Run-DMC, has been unsolved for nearly 18 years, but federal prosecutors on Monday announced the indictment of two men who have long been suspects in the crime.The men, Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan, Jr., were indicted on charges of murder while engaged in drug trafficking, according to an indictment unsealed in the Eastern District of New York that also charged the two with drug offenses, the New York Times and ABC7 in New York reported Monday.Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, sought to exclude Washington from a large multi-state drug deal, investigators said.