Jam Master Jay’s Killer Reportedly Stabbed While Awaiting Sentencing

One of the men convicted of killing Jam Master Jay was reportedly stabbed while behind bars.

Karl Jordan Jr., one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 murder of the Run-DMC legend, was allegedly stabbed during a brawl over the weekend. Jordan, incarcerated since 2020 for his role in the crime, was taken to the hospital following the altercation at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, according to an unidentified NBC News source.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that two people were hospitalized after the fight, which involved “multiple incarcerated individuals,” though no specifics on the cause or identities of the involved were provided.

The same facility, home to figures like Diddy, has seen several violent incidents, including two deadly stabbings last summer and a gruesome MS-13 attack last April where an inmate was stabbed 44 times.

Jordan and his co-defendant, Ronald “Tinard” Washington, were convicted of killing Jam Master Jay, born Jason Mizell, in February 2024 after a four-week trial. Washington, from Mizell’s neighborhood, and Jordan, his godson, were involved in a dispute over a $200,000 cocaine deal that Mizell had cut them out of. In October 2002, they shot Mizell at close range in his Queens recording studio. He was 37.

Mizell’s cousin, Carlis Thompson, expressed relief that Jordan survived the attack, preferring he suffer for his crime.

“I think him being killed would be the easy way out,” Thompson said. “I’d rather him just be in jail for the rest of his life.”

A third man indicted in Mizell’s death, Jay Bryant, is set for trial next year. No sentencing date has been set for Jordan and Washington.