Eyewitness to killing of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay tells jury: 'Then I see Jay just fall'
A witness to the killing of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay in 2002 has testified in the trial for the two men charged in his shooting
For about 15 years, Uriel Rincon told authorities he didn't recognize the gunman who killed Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay and wounded Rincon himself in the rap star's recording studio.
But on Wednesday, Rincon pointed across a Brooklyn federal courtroom and identified Karl Jordan Jr. as the shooter in one of the world's most infamous killings in hip-hop history. Jordan and Ronald Washington, an accused accomplice, have pleaded not guilty to murder.
Rincon told jurors in the men's trial that Jam Master Jay, born Jason Mizell, was in his studio's lounge area on the evening of Oct. 30, 2002, playing a football video game and talking business with him and another aide, when the door opened. In walked Jordan, the rap star's godson, Rincon said.
“He kind of walked directly to Jay and gave — like, half a handshake, with an arm. And at the same time, that's when I hear a couple of shots,” Rincon testified. He said he was looking down at his ringing phone as the gunfire erupted, then looked up again.
