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The trial for two men accused of killing Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay will resume Tuesday after opening statements and testimony on the long-in-the-making trials first day. The jury heard

Over twenty years after his death, his alleged killers have been put on trial.

Prosecutors argue that two men accused of killing Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay were both close to the trailblazing DJ but were driven by "greed and revenge" when they ambushed him at his recording studio more than than 20 years ago. Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr. went on trial Monday. Prosecutors say they killed the 37-year-old DJ in 2002 after being cut out of a cocaine deal. The case languished for almost two decades until their arrest in 2020. Jam Master Jay worked the turntab...

NEW YORK, Jan 30 ― The 2002 killing of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay, one of the most infamous unresolved slayings in hip-hop, was carried out by the rap pioneer's godson...

In opening statements in Brooklyn federal court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Miranda Gonzalez laid out the prosecution's case that Karl Jordan Jr., the hip-hop star's godson, and Ronald Washington, a childhood friend, killed the 37-year-old in 2002 after they were cut out of a lucrative cocaine deal.

Ronald Washington, 59, and Karl Jordan Jr., 40, have pleaded not guilty to federal charges of murder in the shooting of Jam Master Jay in 2002 in New York.

NEW YORK - The 2002 killing of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay, one of the most infamous unresolved slayings in hip-hop, was carried out by the rap pioneer's godson and a childhood friend, federal prosecutors told a jury on Monday (Jan 29) as the murder trial for the two accused men began in New York City. Ronald Washington, 59, and Karl...

Two men have gone on trial accused of murdering Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay more than two decades ago.

Jam Master Jay, a pioneering DJ of Run-DMC, was fatally shot in a New York City recording studio in 2002, and two men are set to go on trial for his murder over two decades after his death.