Opening statements are set for Monday in the federal murder trial of Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington, who were arrested in 2020 for the murder of Jam Master Jay.
For almost two decades, the 2002 killing of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay stood as one of the hip-hop world’s most infamous and elusive crimes, one of three long-unsolved slayings of major rap stars. Now Jay’s case is the first of those killings to go to trial. Opening statements are set for Monday in the federal murder trial of Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington , who were arrested in 2020. “A brazen act,” then-Brooklyn U.S.
Attorney Seth DuCharme said at the time, “has finally caught up with them
Jam Master Jay Murder Trial Run-DMC Karl Jordan Jr. Ronald Washington
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