A man thought by US Federal prosecutors to have been a witness to the murder of both a Tupac associate and Run DMC's Jam Master Jay has been jailed for robbery.
As reported last year, it has been claimed that Ronald Washington confessed to an unnamed witness his involvement in the 1995 fatal shooting of producer and Tupac Shakur associate Randy 'Stretch' Walker and the 2002 fatal shooting of Jam Master Jay. The witness made the allegations during investigations into Washington's involvement in six armed robberies, for which he was convicted last April. Regards the Jam Master Jay shooting, prosecutors claim that Washington held people at gunpoint while another unknown individual shot the Run DMC DJ.
Washington has now been convicted on further robbery charges and sentenced to 17 years in prison. However, Judge Nina Gershon declined calls from prosecutors to include Washington's presence at the recording studio on the night of Jay's murder in the charges held against him. Washington has always denied any involvement in Jam Master Jay's shooting and his defence lawyer told the Associated Press that those allegations were nothing but "gossip".