Jayshawn Boyd's Latest Project: A Game Changer?

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The best criminal justice reporting tagged with " Jayshawn Boyd ," curated by The Marshall Project. A jury found Byad Lockett and Darryl Watson guilty in the Sept. 2021 Essex County jail attack against then 21-year-old Jayshawn Boyd, prosecutors announced Wednesday. The jury found Lockett and. Lockett, 22, a Newark resident, was found guilty of attempting to murder fellow inmate Jayshawn Boyd in a brutal attack involving a microwave oven and other items. Newark – Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II announced today that two Essex County jail inmates were convicted of attempted murder for brutally beating Jayshawn Boyd with a microwave oven and other items. A third inmate was found guilty of attacking Boyd with additional weapons. Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo is named as a defendant in a civil suit by Jayshawn Boyd, who was brutally beaten by fellow prisoners at the county jail in Newark in 2021. Surveillance video of the incident on September 23, 2021, shows 22-year-old Jayshawn Boyd was relentlessly attacked for two minutes and 23 second by a group of seven fellow detainees in the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF) gang unit, who knocked him to the floor and stomped on his head, beating him with fists, a broom, a microwave oven. Watson and six other inmates beat Boyd in the county jail with a microwave, a water cooler, an industrial mop bucket and other things, leaving him with permanent brain damage, said acting Essex. Stephens, II announced today that Superior Court Judge Ronald D. Wigler sentenced Essex County Jail inmate Darryl Watson to 20 years in prison for attempted murder in the jailhouse beating of fellow inmate Jayshawn Boyd, 22, of Newark.