What Experts Are Saying About Jayshawn Boyd's Latest Move

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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. 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. 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. Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo is named as a defendant in a civil suit by Jayshawn Boyd, who was brutally beaten by fellow prisoners at the county jail in Newark in 2021. 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 . 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. In accordance with the No Early Release Act, Lockett must serve 85 percent, or 17 years, of his 20-year sentence before being considered for parole. Nearly six weeks after that attack, as Boyd regains consciousness from a coma at University Hospital, his family and dozens of protesters gathered at the county building to demand accountability from prison officials and the firing of the jail’s guards. 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. Although Boyd survived the attack, he spent months in a coma and sustained brain damage, said statements from prosecutors and an attorney for his family, Brooke Barnett, who claimed in her.