BOSTON — A Boston man who admitted taking part in a 2020 killing in Brockton as a member of the Cameron Street gang has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts said Friday.

Takari Elliott, 34, also known as "T-Paper," was sentenced Oct. 20 by U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, who also ordered five years of supervised release once he is freed. Elliott pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise involving murder. He was among 22 people charged in the case in May 2023.

Prosecutors said Elliott admitted his role in the October 2020 killing of Manuel Duarte, known as "Brava." According to prosecutors, Elliott spent the day of the killing messaging Duarte on Snapchat, urging him to come to an address in Brockton for a drug deal. Another Cameron Street member, who has since died, rented a car in Boston, drove to Brockton to pick up Elliott, and the two met Duarte at a home there. A fellow gang member then came out of the backyard and shot Duarte 10 times, killing him, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Elliott and a fellow gang member were paid $60,000 for the killing and split the money.

Elliott was on supervised release from an earlier federal drug trafficking conviction at the time of the killing. Kobick sentenced him to two more years for violating that release, to be served at the same time as the racketeering sentence.

Prosecutors described Cameron Street as a violent gang based largely in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood whose members use guns to kill and attack rivals and to protect drugs and drug money, and who use social media to promote the gang and celebrate its violence. They said Elliott's ties to the gang go back to January 2011, when he was arrested in a car near Cameron Street with other members, masks and a gun with an obliterated serial number. He was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison in that case.

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