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CLEVELAND, Ohio – For Montori, life in the streets was a game of shoot to kill.

As boys growing up in Cleveland’s Collinwood-Nottingham neighborhood, he and his friends inherited a feud with rivals in adjacent Glenville. Eventually, fistfights turned into gun battles. Whenever he drew his weapon, Montori felt like a competitor in a Call of Duty video game, with points amassed by hitting targets.

“It’s all about who got the higher score,” he says now. “That’s how you get your clout.”

One night in 2018, the then-17-year-old grabbed two pistols and headed out the door. Acquiring guns was no problem for Montori, who stole them on the street and relied on a local woman for straw purchases. It had been less than a year since his release from a juvenile prison, with a rap sheet dating to age 13.

Earlier that night, Montori provoked his rivals on Instagram, and …