1Former death row inmate gets up to 60 years for killing rapper at 2010 concert

Lancaster, PA – A man once sentenced to death for the 2010 shooting death of an aspiring hip-hop artist outside a Columbia concert venue was resentenced Thursday to 30 to 60 years in state prison after pleading guilty to reduced charges.

Jakeem Lydell Towles, now 36 and formerly of North Lime Street in Lancaster, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, attempted murder, and a felony firearms offense in the killing of 20-year-old Cornell Anton Stewart, known by his stage name “Young E-Z.” Stewart was fatally shot in the head on May 7, 2010, during a confrontation outside a concert at a renovated fire hall on North Fourth Street.

Towles had previously been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to deat

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