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Headline: Trial opens for murder of Jam Master Jay after over twenty years
Caption: On January 29, opening statements were scheduled for a trial involving two men accused of murdering Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay in 2002. The trial comes over 20 years after the DJ was shot in his New York City recording studio. Both Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington, who prosecutors claim shot and killed Jay in a botched drug deal, have pleaded not guilty. The death of Jay, birth name Jason Mizell, went unsolved until the two men were arrested in 2020. Despite Run-DMC's anti-drug stance expressed in their lyrics and PSAs…
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