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Man pleads guilty to murder 2 decades after death of Run DMC's Jam Master Jay
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- Nardine Saad Los Angeles Getty Images DJ Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell in 1987.A man has pleaded guilty to a charge of murder more than 20 years after the fatal ambush shooting of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay.
- Jay Bryant, 52, changed his plea on Monday to guilty, telling a judge that he helped others get into a building to ambush and kill Jay Mizell, the pioneering rap star who was known as Jam Master Jay.
- Prosecutors said that Bryant's DNA was found on a hat inside the recording studio where Mizell was shot in the head in 2002.
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Nardine Saad Los Angeles Getty Images DJ Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell in 1987.A man has pleaded guilty to a charge of murder more than 20 years after the fatal ambush shooting of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay.
Jay Bryant, 52, changed his plea on Monday to guilty, telling a judge that he helped others get into a building to ambush and kill Jay Mizell, the pioneering rap star who was known as Jam Master Jay.
Prosecutors said that Bryant's DNA was found on a hat inside the recording studio where Mizell was shot in the head in 2002. Bryant originally pleaded not guilty when he was indicted in 2023.
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