On this date in 2002, the illustrious DJ of the legendary Run-D.M.C. was gunned down in a studio in his hometown of Hollis, Queens. He was 37 years previous.
An unknown particular person fatally shot Mizell in a recording studio on Merrick Blvd. in Jamaica, Queens. The opposite particular person within the room, 25-year-old Urieco Rincon, was shot within the ankle however survived.
In 2003, Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff, a convicted drug supplier and longtime good friend of Homicide Inc. heads Irv and Chris Gotti, was investigated for killing Mizell as a result of the DJ defied an business blacklist of then upcoming rapper 50 Cent that was imposed due to “Ghetto Qu’ran”, a music 50 Cent wrote about Queens drug kingpins, together with McGriff’s drug historical past.
In April 2007, federal prosecutors named Ronald “Tenad” Washington as an confederate within the homicide. Washington is also a suspect within the 1995 homicide of Randy “Stretch” Walker, a former shut affiliate of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, who was additionally murdered. In keeping with court docket papers filed by the prosecution, Washington pointed his gun at these current within the studio, ordered them to get on the bottom and supplied cowl for his affiliate to shoot and kill Jason Mizell, nonetheless, he was by no means convicted and no new suspects have been named.
This homicide stays unsolved, however former Hip Hop cop Derrick Parker says he is aware of who killed Jam Grasp Jay, and the case can be solved within the close to future.
This mindless killing was certainly one of many unsolved murders within the Hip Hop group, which has been affected by gun violence. Let’s hope that this somber second in Hip Hop historical past will immediate our youth to place the weapons down.
