Jayshawn Boyd: His Biggest Regret? You Won't Believe It

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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. He is pictured with his. 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. 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. Boyd – who has schizophrenia – was reportedly never put in general population before the day of the beating. He was left with permanent brain damage after the assault. The attack lasted at least. 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. Jayshawn Boyd , 22, filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court Tuesday against Essex County, jail leadership, correctional officers and health workers. In the suit, he claims authorities subjected. 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. 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.