Jayshawn Boyd: The Rise and Fall of a Star?

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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. Jayshawn Boyd , 22, woke up from a coma nearly three months after he was brutally beaten by seven inmates in the ‘gang unit’ in the Essex County Correctional Facility. Jayshawn Boyd , 22, who is schizophrenic, was placed in a gang unit in September after missing a hearing for incidents with his family at home. Surveillance video posted on social media shows. On September 23 , 2021 , seven inmates attacked Boyd in the common area of the C-pod, beating him unconscious by punching him in the face and stomping on his head. Upon seeing the riot, the. Jayshawn Boyd has filed a lawsuit against the Essex County jail after he was nearly beaten to death at the facility last year. He is pictured with his brother and sister before the attack. 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. 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. Byad Lockett, 22, of Newark, took part in the near-fatal beating of Jayshawn Boyd while being held in the jail in September 2021, along with six other assailants. Seven inmates attacked Jayshawn Boyd at the Essex County jail in Newark, beating him unconscious by punching him in the face and stomping on his head, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II said. 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.