Jam Master Jay Murder Witness Allegedly Threatened At Run-DMC DJ’s Funeral

Jam Master Jay‘s alleged killer(s) have yet to have their day in court over 20 years since the Run-DMC DJ’s murder, but new information about the case has now become available.

According to documents obtained by AllHipHop, Karl Jordan Jr. – one of two men indicted for the 2002 killing in 2020 – allegedly approached a witness at JMJ’s November 2002 funeral and repeatedly asked them if they knew who shot the DJ in a threatening manner.

The docs state that the witness, referred to as “Witness 7,” believed Jordan was attempting to intimidate them and determine if they’d recognized him during the murder. There are other counts of alleged witness intimidation in the documents as well.

“In a November 23, 2020 jail call, Jordan states that Witness 6 ‘put me at the scene’ and discusses Witness 6 and other possible witnesses implicating Jordan,” the documents state. “Witness 6, again, told the government in 2021 that Witness 6 was afraid of Jordan’s father.

“Witness 6 said [they] only had two options: cooperate and be killed, or not cooperate and lie at trial. In fact, Witness 6 has told the government that after JMJ’s murder, Witness 6 immediately left New York because the people who murdered JMJ were close to JMJ and Witness 6 wanted to ‘escape.’ Witness 6 said that if Witness 6 cooperated, Witness 6 thought [they] would be killed.”

Elsewhere in the docs, a witness identified as “Witness 5” claimed they saw Jordan threaten someone with a gun and said he’d kill them like he did JMJ.

“Witness 5 will further testify that Witness 5 observed Jordan threaten an individual with a gun and to kill the individual like he did Mizell — an event that prompted Witness 5 to contact law enforcement and report Jordan’s gun possession and narcotics trafficking,” it reads.

“Following controlled purchases of narcotics from Jordan by law enforcement, a December 15, 2004 search of recovered two loaded firearms (not .40 caliber), a loaded 9mm magazine, a bulletproof vest, cocaine, marijuana and glassine envelopes used for packaging narcotics.”

A “Witness 2” reportedly gave information that they would stash guns with Jordan in a van outside of his house before the murder, and that the weapons went missing around the time of the killing.

“The search of on December 15, 2004 that recovered firearms and narcotics further corroborates both Witness 2 and Witness 5’s testimony that Jordan possessed firearms and narcotics,” the docs read.

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Karl Jordan Jr. and a man named Ronald Washington were indicted in Jam Master Jay’s murder in August 2020. While a trial has yet to be set, a motion to dismiss charges filed by the accused killers was denied in September.

U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall rejected the defense team’s argument in a 17-page ruling, explaining he didn’t agree federal prosecutors deliberately waited 12 years to charge them in order to “hamstring the defense.”

Hall also disputed the notion trying Jordan and Washington together would prejudice a jury.

Hall did, however, agree to excise eight drug trafficking counts against Jordan, even though prosecutors alleged those charges stem from an undercover operation they related to the motive behind the Run-DMC legend’s murder and involve many of the same witnesses. Prosecutors must now try Jordan on those counts separately.