Key Takeaways
- Run-DMC’s Darryl "DMC" McDaniels rode as a passenger in an SUV that collided with a garbage truck on Los Angeles' 105 Freeway on October 30.
- Citizen App footage showed the SUV facing against traffic beside the truck before crews towed it away.
- The crash fell on the 24th anniversary of Jam Master Jay's murder; Jay Bryant pleaded guilty in April to helping the killers enter the Run-DMC DJ's studio and faces 15 to 20 years.
Darryl "DMC" McDaniels was involved in an accident after an SUV he was riding in crashed in Los Angeles.
According to TMZ, the Run-DMC rapper was a passenger in a vehicle that was riding through the West Athens neighborhood on the 105 freeway on Friday (October 30). The SUV collided with a garbage truck, which was reported to the Citizen App, while a call to authorities came at 11:43 A.M.
Video posted to the Citizen App shows the SUV stopped in a freeway lane and its front turned opposite traffic against the truck. The SUV was towed away shortly after authorities arrived at the scene.
McDaniels, 62, co-founded Run-DMC with Joseph "Run" Simmons and late DJ Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell. Friday's crash concidentally fell on the 24th anniversary of Jam Master Jay's death. The musician was shot and killed at 37 years old in his recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, on October 30, 2002.
In April, the case’s final suspect, Jay Bryant, pleaded guilty and admitted he helped aid the killers in entering the studio. He faces 15 to 20 years.
"In 2002, in Queens NY, I agreed with others who were known drug dealers and involved with a drug deal with Jason Mizell to possess and distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine," Bryant said during the hearing.
"On October 30, 2002, in Queens NY, I helped them kill Jason Mizell by helping them gain entry to the recording studio," he continued. "I knew a gun was going to be used to shoot Jason Mizell. I knew what I was doing was wrong and a crime."
