Jay Bryant, 52, changed his plea on a federal murder charge Monday, April 27, in Brooklyn Federal Court, The reports. When sentenced, he faces a minimum term of 15 years in prison and up to 20 years in prison. Bryant was originally indicted in May 2023, and had pleaded not guilty.
His trial was set to start May 4, but a report earlier this month indicated that Bryant was considering changing his plea to guilty. Bryant was the third man charged in Jam Master Jay’s death. The DJ, born Jason William Mizell, was shot over a failed drug deal at his recording studio in Queens in October 2002.
But last year a judge voided Jordan’s conviction after finding prosecutors were unable to prove a clear motive for Jordan. Washington has challenged his conviction, too. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article","mid","in-article1","mid-article1","inbody","inbody1"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("music\/article\/inbody1") .addSize([[300,250],[620,350],[2,2],[3,3],[2,4],[4,2],[640,250],[6,6],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); As for Bryant, he confessed that he had slipped into the building and opened up a back door so that the suspects could catch Mizell off-guard. However, he did not name the other people allegedly involved in the shooting.
Mizell, an exhaustive investigation revealed Bryant’s role and today he finally admitted his guilt,” United States Attorney Joseph Nocella said in a press release. Bryant’s role in Mizell’s death was discovered after his DNA was found on a hat left behind at the recording studio. His role in the shooting was mentioned during Washington and Jordan’s trial, with a woman named Tana Davis placing Bryant at the crime scene.
She said she observed a man matching his description walk through the building and later heard gun shots coming from the studio. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article2","mid","in-article2","mid-article","inbody","inbody2"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("music\/article\/inbody2") .addSize([[300,250],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[3,3],[2,2],[6,6],[620,366]]) .setLazyLoadMultiplier(2) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Editor’s picks The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century So Far The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century The extent of Bryant’s actual role in Mizell’s murder has been unclear. Prosecutors had argued that Washington had blocked the studio’s door and claimed that Jordan had been the shooter while Bryant had granted the men entry to the building. However, Bryant’s uncle, Raymond Bryant, testified during the other men’s criminal trial that his nephew had confessed to the shooting.
And defense lawyers for both Washington and Jordan claimed that Bryant was the alleged shooter. Trending Stories Why Was It So Hard for Sam Cooke’s Grandkids to Drop a Soul Album? Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left GOP Candidate Slammed for Telling Voters to Deal With Gas Prices by Cutting Back on Starbucks Trump Is Spending Nearly $1 Billion in Taxpayer Money on Gaudy White House Renovations: Report Jam Master Jay was a founding member of the influential group, Run-DMC, alongside Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels.
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