Man pleads guilty to murder 2 decades after death 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.

 

In 2024, two others were convicted in the case - Mizell's godson Karl Jordan Jr and childhood friend Ronald Washington.