by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
March 12, 2025
Karl Jordan, Jr. was assaulted on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn throughout a gang battle
The person who was convicted of killing Run-DMC member Jam Grasp Jay was hospitalized after he was stabbed 18 occasions in a Brooklyn jail.
In keeping with AllHipHop, Karl Jordan, Jr., who’s being held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, the place Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held till the beginning of his trial, was assaulted in what officers labeled a gang battle incident. The sufferer, who was discovered responsible in February 2024 of killing Jay, was taken to the hospital, the place he was initially listed in critical situation however has been downgraded to steady.
Amid tensions between the Bloods gang and a sect of Dominicans often called the Trinitarios, Jordan was caught up within the violent scuffle that resulted in him struggling two collapsed lungs. 4 different prisoners had been additionally injured within the altercation, though Jordan’s accidents had been probably the most extreme.
The Related Press reported that 23 inmates have been arrested and charged with a number of crimes starting from smuggling weapons in a Doritos bag to Jordan’s stabbing that befell Feb. 22. The fees had been introduced by federal prosecutors March 6. Six had been charged in Jordan’s stabbing.
AllHipHop additionally reported that former fashionable podcaster Taxstone was one of many inmates arrested after he was alleged to have tossed a rope out of a window on the facility in an try to smuggle contraband into Metropolitan Detention Heart from an incident that befell in June 2024.
In March 2023, Taxstone was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and weapons expenses for his function in killing rapper Troy Ave’s bodyguard, Ronald McPhatter. The deadly encounter befell throughout a backstage confrontation at a live performance that Atlanta rapper T.I. carried out at Irving Plaza in Manhattan.
The jail facility has been within the information recently for accusations of mismanagement, safety breaches, and scrutiny over many violent incidents between inmates which have taken place on the federal jail over the previous few years.
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