Man pleads guilty in the 2002 killing of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay
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Jay Bryant has pleaded guilty to a federal murder charge, admitting to a judge he helped people get into a building so the Run-DMC band member Jam Master Jay could be ambushed in his recording studio in 2002.
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What happened
Jay Bryant has pleaded guilty to a federal murder charge, admitting to a judge he helped people get into a building so the Run-DMC band member Jam Master Jay could be ambushed in his recording studio in 2002.
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