Jayshawn Boyd: Breaking News You Need to See

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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 , 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. 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. 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 . Jayshawn Boyd , 22, an Elizabeth resident, was brutally beaten by fellow inmates while he was locked up in the Essex County jail in September. 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. 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. 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. 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. An Essex County inmate has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempted murder in the jailhouse, officials said. Darryl Watson received the sentence for the beating of fellow inmate.