Jayshawn Boyd's Shocking Confession: The Full Story

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Jayshawn Boyd , a 22-year-old with schizophrenia, faced a harrowing experience at the Essex County jail in Newark. Attacked by fellow detainees in a brutal incident caught on video, he now lies in a coma, the aftermath of a shocking assault that lasted over two minutes. Jayshawn Boyd, 22, was standing in a common area of the Essex County Correctional Facility in New Jersey on September 23 when a group of seven inmates in white started beating him - eventually. 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. On September 23 , 2021 , seven inmates attacked 22-year-old Jayshawn Boyd in a common area in Building 3 of the correctional facility. The men punched Boyd in the face and stomped on his head. On September 23 , 2021 , seven inmates attacked Boyd in the common area of the C-pod, beating him unconscious by punching him in the face and stomping on his head. Upon seeing the riot, the sole corrections officer assigned to the C-Pod exited for his safety and immediately called for assistance. 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. 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. Boyd , who has schizophrenia, had been in a coma for months since the beating and only regained consciousness this week. The horrific incident was captured on video by the jail’s surveillance. 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.