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E. Germantown man gets jail in slaying near rapper's bus

An East Germantown man pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to 20 to 45 years in prison for killing a New York City man during a shooting last year in South Philadelphia outside the tour bus of rapper French Montana.

An East Germantown man pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to 20 to 45 years in prison for killing a New York City man during a shooting last year in South Philadelphia outside the tour bus of rapper French Montana.

Frank C. Briggs, 21, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, aggravated assault, and a weapons charge in the Feb. 28, 2013, shootings that killed Jowann King, 26, and wounded a 28-year-old man, also from New York City.

Assistant District Attorney Kirk Handrich said Briggs did not make a statement before he was sentenced by Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Glenn B. Bronson to a term that was part of a plea agreement.

After a sold-out show at the Theater of Living Arts, Montana's tour bus was parked near the Holiday Inn Express on Columbus Boulevard surrounded by hundreds of friends and fans. Police said a car with tinted windows drove up around midnight and shots were fired from the passenger window into the crowd. Handrich said investigators still do not know of a motive for the shooting but do not believe it involved Montana or his entourage. - Joseph A. Slobodzian