A gang member who firebombed the homes of African Americans to force them out of a Los Angeles housing project was sentenced Monday to 13 years in federal prison.

Jose "Lil' Moe" Saucedo, 25, was sentenced for what U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder called "a terribly violent crime," according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement.

On Mother's Day 2014, Saucedo and his fellow gang members smashed windows and threw Molotov cocktails into four apartments at Ramona Gardens, a heavily Hispanic housing project in Boyle Heights east of downtown, prosecutors said.

Three apartments housed African American families, including sleeping women and children, while the fourth held a Hispanic resident that the gang members targeted by mistake, prosecutors said.

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