Cuomo Lawyer Shot in Head and Local Cafe Owner Murdered in Same Week
Carey Gabay. Photo via NYS Office of the Governor In the early hours of Monday’s West Indian Day Parade, a volley of gunfire injured Cuomo administration lawyer Carey Gabay. The 43-year-old Harvard graduate and First Deputy Counsel for the Empire State Development Corporation was shot in the head by a passing bullet and remains in critical…
Carey Gabay. Photo via NYS Office of the Governor
In the early hours of Monday’s West Indian Day Parade, a volley of gunfire injured Cuomo administration lawyer Carey Gabay. The 43-year-old Harvard graduate and First Deputy Counsel for the Empire State Development Corporation was shot in the head by a passing bullet and remains in critical condition.
Gabay had been celebrating J’Ouvert with his family. He was shot around 3:40 a.m. near the corner of Bedford Avenue and Sullivan Place, according to the New York Times.
Gabay’s tragic shooting comes just days after the death of another innocent in Brooklyn.
Beloved local and the owner of a recently opened Prospect Lefferts Gardens cafe, Rickie Young was murdered across the street from where he was brought up, according to the Q at Parkside. Young drove himself to Kings County Hospital Center at 5 a.m. on Friday, with gunshot wounds to his shoulder and jaw, Gothamist reported. Despite doctor’s attempts to save him, he died from his wounds.
Rickie Young. Photo from Facebook, via Gothamist
Despite the NYPD proclaiming this summer to be New York’s safest on records, meaningless violence clearly still persists in Brooklyn. What can be done to prevent these senseless deaths without punishing everyone for the bloodshed wrought be a few bad actors?
Cuomo Administration Lawyer Is Shot in Head Before West Indian Day Parade [NYT]
Owner of New Prospect Lefferts Gardens Cafe Fatally Shot [Gothamist]
Shooting. Plus Reality Check on Shootings [Q Parkside]
Brooklyn Crime Coverage [Brownstoner]
THE Caribbean carnival on Eastern Parkway attracts just about the largest International tourist trade of any event in New York. It is not just a one day event. By sheer statistics (freakenomics) you are probably safer at the parade than most places in the City. The millions of people on the parade compared to the casualties…. the numbers show are safer. People unfortunately get shot, stabbed, murdered in all sorts of hideous ways every single day in this City. That said; yes it is probably one of the most controversial street events in New York City, there are a million reasons why that is. But that is not the point I am trying to make.
GUNS and stop & frisk; the policy did not work on many grounds and should not be tolerated to come back in its previous form of stopping and holding up people from their innocent days work, just the fact of making people late for where they were going was punishing too many innocent people and creating to much distrust of the Police department. Am I the only white person that noticed during those years that the only time I got pulled over was when I was driving with black people in my car?
If the powers that be want to stop illegal guns coming into the City they can, we are basically an Island. All they have to do is to institute random “stop & frisks” for want of a better word on every bridge & tunnel crossing into the City, every cash crossing should be followed on radar, check all bags on Greyhound & Commuter/State crossing buses, have K9 units working on Amtrack & commuter trains. Yes Christie Gate will have nothing on it, but it will stop a lot of the guns coming in and people will also see that those getting arrested are probably not of the social groups that generally got stopped & frisked on the streets. It will hold up the traffic no more than those weird random stop & check stops the Police set up in “certain neighborhoods”, just to tell people to “drive safe!”
Guns are the problem period and until this City sets the example to the rest of the country, it will always be the problem with a lot of finger pointing and a lot of innocent people getting killed. This country is the leader in gun violence in the entire world and you are supposedly not at war with each other!!??
THE Caribbean carnival on Eastern Parkway attracts just about the largest International tourist trade of any event in New York. It is not just a one day event. By sheer statistics (freakenomics) you are probably safer at the parade than most places in the City. The millions of people on the parade compared to the casualties…. the numbers show are safer. People unfortunately get shot, stabbed, murdered in all sorts of hideous ways every single day in this City. That said; yes it is probably one of the most controversial street events in New York City, there are a million reasons why that is. But that is not the point I am trying to make.
GUNS and stop & frisk; the policy did not work on many grounds and should not be tolerated to come back in its previous form of stopping and holding up people from their innocent days work, just the fact of making people late for where they were going was punishing too many innocent people and creating to much distrust of the Police department. Am I the only white person that noticed during those years that the only time I got pulled over was when I was driving with black people in my car?
If the powers that be want to stop illegal guns coming into the City they can, we are basically an Island. All they have to do is to institute random “stop & frisks” for want of a better word on every bridge & tunnel crossing into the City, every cash crossing should be followed on radar, check all bags on Greyhound & Commuter/State crossing buses, have K9 units working on Amtrack & commuter trains. Yes Christie Gate will have nothing on it, but it will stop a lot of the guns coming in and people will also see that those getting arrested are probably not of the social groups that generally got stopped & frisked on the streets. It will hold up the traffic no more than those weird random stop & check stops the Police set up in “certain neighborhoods”, just to tell people to “drive safe!”
Guns are the problem period and until this City sets the example to the rest of the country, it will always be the problem with a lot of finger pointing and a lot of innocent people getting killed. This country is the leader in gun violence in the entire world and you are supposedly not at war with each other!!??
Shut this thing down for good. I have friends on Eastern Parkway who have to leave their homes Sunday evening to avoid this. They cannot have an event like this without having military style patrol out there, and as we all know that cannot be done right now with whats going on in the world. The gun that was found to be shot was a sub machine gun, cops with 9mm cannot even defend themselves. The cops admit to being ordered not to make any arrests due to the fear of riots and lawsuits. This is madness, no one in their right mind think this is acceptable I don’t care what your background is, there is no defending these actions.
Shut this thing down for good. I have friends on Eastern Parkway who have to leave their homes Sunday evening to avoid this. They cannot have an event like this without having military style patrol out there, and as we all know that cannot be done right now with whats going on in the world. The gun that was found to be shot was a sub machine gun, cops with 9mm cannot even defend themselves. The cops admit to being ordered not to make any arrests due to the fear of riots and lawsuits. This is madness, no one in their right mind think this is acceptable I don’t care what your background is, there is no defending these actions.
Progressive politicians wanna build affordable housing for these thugs
Totally agreed, it makes my neighborhood so unsafe during the event, I don’t feel comfortable going out. When you have 30 + shots fired on one block, which Mr Gabay encountered, it’s next to impossible to walk away without getting a bullet. This is NYC, not some third world countries where violance like this can just break out so routinely every year. This should end. Politicians should put general publics safety over their political popularity.
Totally agreed, it makes my neighborhood so unsafe during the event, I don’t feel comfortable going out. When you have 30 + shots fired on one block, which Mr Gabay encountered, it’s next to impossible to walk away without getting a bullet. This is NYC, not some third world countries where violance like this can just break out so routinely every year. This should end. Politicians should put general publics safety over their political popularity.
But they took place in events associated with the parade and are considered part of the same celebration.
But they took place in events associated with the parade and are considered part of the same celebration.