What's Next for Jayshawn Boyd? We Have the Answers

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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. Newark – Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. 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. 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. Lockett, along with fellow inmate Darryl Watson, were convicted in June for the attack against then 21-year-old Jayshawn Boyd . The jury found Lockett and Watson guilty of attempted murder,. Protesters rallied in Newark on Dec. 8 to support Jayshawn Boyd , a 22-year-old Elizabeth man with schizophrenia who was beaten in the Essex County jail in September. 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. On Wednesday, a Superior Court judge sentenced Darryl Watson to 20 years in state prison for his role in the attack on a fellow inmate, Jayshawn Boyd . It shows several men, including Lockett, attacking Jayshawn Boyd . After Boyd is seen lying on the ground unconscious, Lockett hits Boyd over the head with a microwave oven and broomstick. 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.