BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) -- It has been more than two decades since the hip-hop pioneering member of RUN DMC, Jason Mizell was gunned down in his Jamaica, Queens music studio.
That night, his longtime friend, studio co-owner, and business partner Randy Allen was in the control room, behind a closed door. He testified on Tuesday to hearing two gunshots in the adjacent room where Mizell and another friend were playing video games.
Under cross-examination, Allen told jurors in Brooklyn Federal court he grabbed his gun and ran out of the studio -moments after the suspects fled the scene.
“To try to at least see who it was. I was not trying to catch them. I was just trying to see them. I need the gun for protection. They had weapons, and my friend just got shot…I did not know who I was looking for,” Allen said in his testimony.
Time, or more specifically, the passage of it was once again front and center as a key factor in the ongoing Jam Master Jay murder trial.
Defense attorneys for the accused killers Karl Jordan and Ronald “Tinard” Washington pressed Allen, as they did his sister a day earlier on why he repeatedly failed to identify one or both defendants to detective especially since both were familiar faces.
The alleged triggerman, Jordan, was Jam Master Jay’s Godson and Washington was a close friend of the star.
Both are accused of killing him on the heels of allegedly being cut out of a cocaine deal that Mizell was brokering with a dealer in Baltimore.
When asked why he did not tell detectives what his sister, Lydia High, told him which is that Washington, aka Tinard – was one of the suspects.
“Because I did not want to put my sister through that. I did not see them,” Allen testified.
He later added, “I was nervous, and I was confused. I was really scared of what just happened. I did not know what to do, honestly.”
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