What Everyone's Getting Wrong About Jayshawn Boyd

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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. He is pictured with his. 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. 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. Boyd — who suffers from schizophrenia — was initially taken into custody at the jail on Sept. 9 and attacked just after being housed in a “designated gang unit,” Michael Thomas Licciardi, an. 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. 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. Essex County officials reported today that two Essex County jail inmates were convicted of attempted murder for brutally beating Jayshawn Boyd with a microwave oven and other items. Officials say a third inmate was found guilty of attacking Boyd with additional weapons. Boyd , 22, suffered a traumatic brain injury from the September 2021 attack. The jail inmates who attacked Jayshawn Boyd in Essex County’s lockup on Sept. 23rd had no fear – not only of being caught, but of being interrupted.