Jayshawn Boyd's Controversial Decision: The Fallout

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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 and. Jayshawn Boyd , a 22-year-old with schizophrenia, faced a harrowing experience at the Essex County jail in Newark. Attacked by fellow detainees in a brutal incident caught on video, he now lies in a coma, the aftermath of a shocking assault that lasted over two minutes. 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. Now, one of the inmates responsible for the attack – which included repeatedly smashing Boyd in the head with a microwave oven – will be serving up to 20 extra years in jail, prosecutors say. Both were found guilty of attempted murder , second-degree aggravated assault and weapons offenses for the attempt on Boyd’s life, which was captured on the jail’s surveillance camera as it. Darryl Watson, an inmate at Essex County Jail, was handed a 20-year sentence by Superior Court Judge The Honorable Ronald D. Wigler for his attempt to murder fellow inmate, Jayshawn Boyd, 22, from Newark. 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. On September 23 , 2021 , Essex County jail inmate, 22-year-old Jayshawn Boyd, was brutally beaten by seven other inmates in the common area. The seven-to-one attack led to Boyd being knocked unconscious from repeated punches and feet stomping to his head. 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.