Karl Jordan, one of the men convicted of killing Run-DMC legend Jam Master Jay, was stabbed in the MDC Brooklyn jail, the Daily News has learned.
Jordan, 41, survived the attack and was hospitalized after he was stabbed during a weekend fight at the Sunset Park lockup, where he’s being held as he awaits sentencing, sources familiar with his case tell The News.
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Donald Murphy confirmed that two inmates were hospitalized after a fight between “multiple incarcerated individuals” at about 1:05 p.m., but wouldn’t confirm if Jordan was one of those inmates.
A source told The News that the fight broke out between two rival gangs.
A representative of the U.S. Attorney’s office declined comment Tuesday.
Jordan and a second man, Ronald “Tinard” Washington, were awaiting sentencing after a jury found them guilty last year of the turntable master’s 2002 murder.
Jay, who was born Jason Mizell, was playing a video football game in his second-floor studio on Merrick Blvd. in Hollis, Queens on Oct. 30, 2002 when a gunman shot him in the head.
The five other people in the studio kept quiet for years — out of fear, federal prosecutors said — until taking the stand over the course of roughly three weeks of testimony in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Mizell’s friend, Uriel “Tony” Rincon, who told the Daily News in 2007 he was inches away but never saw the killer’s face, identified Jordan as the shooter, and said Washington was standing guard over the studio door.
Prosecutors said Jordan, who was Mizell’s godson, and Washington killed the 37-year-old hip-hop icon because they were cut out of a cocaine deal.
Jordan and Washington remained held in MDC Brooklyn after the verdict. The jail, which is notorious for its dire conditions and violence, also houses alleged CEO-killer Luigi Mangione, fallen hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, and crypto scammer Samuel Bankman-Fried.
Last year, the jail saw two stabbing murders less than six weeks apart over the summer, and a caught-on-video April 27 attack where three MS-13 members stabbed a man 44 times before a lone correction officer intervened.
Jordan and Washington’s sentencing date hasn’t been set while the judge in the case, U.S. District Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall, weighs a motion by defense to toss the verdict.
Jordan and Washington’s defense attorneys argued another man, Jay Bryant, 50, who confessed to his uncle that he shot Mizell and whose hat was found in the studio with his DNA on it, was the real killer.
Prosecutors indicted Bryant in May 2023, and say he participated in the killing by opening the rear door to the studio building for Jordan and Washington.