CNN. The founding member of Run-DMC, whose real name was Jason Mizell, was killed in 2002. He was 37-years-old. The unsolved murder has plagued the music industry for nearly two decades.
The indictment was originally sealed but the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York made it public. It contains the prosecutors’ theory that Jordan Jr.
and Washington worked together to kill Mizell as retaliation for his part in what they considered a botched drug deal. Allegedly Mizell was engaging in cocaine transport between 1996 and 2002.
The indictment reports in July of 2002 he procured 10 kilograms to be distributed by his killers and other co-conspirators but an incident with Washington and another distributor caused him to dismiss.
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