A Crips gang member who let his younger brother languish in jail on Rikers Island for a mistaken-identity murder he committed will spend 30 years in federal prison for that Brooklyn slaying.

Martial H. Amilcar’s sentencing in Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday came after he pleaded guilty to a federal racketeering charge earlier this year, admitting he fatally shot 15-year-old Samuel Joseph in 2019 as part of a beef between his gang, the Hyena Crips, and the rival Haitian Loc gang.

Except Amilcar, 28, was actually gunning for Samuel’s younger brother, and killed the teen by mistake as he stepped out of his apartment on Flatbush Ave. near 26th St. to get a bite to eat. Martial H. Amilcar

“For years, the defendant publicly let his younger brother take the blame for the murder, while,

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