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]
Progressive politicians wanna build affordable housing for these thugs
If only there was some way of checking people randomly to see if they were carrying weapons, thus serving as a deterrent to the act of weapons carrying. Hmmmm.
If only there was some way of checking people randomly to see if they were carrying weapons, thus serving as a deterrent to the act of weapons carrying. Hmmmm.
These atrocities keep happening but our “progressive” officials don’t want to offend thugs by stopping and frisking them. It’s a great, sad mystery.
These atrocities keep happening but our “progressive” officials don’t want to offend thugs by stopping and frisking them. It’s a great, sad mystery.
This is the only parade in NYC which has a mortality rate. The police dread this detail. People are shot, stabbed, it’s a dangerous annual event. No other gathering in the city has such violence. Just end it.
This is the only parade in NYC which has a mortality rate. The police dread this detail. People are shot, stabbed, it’s a dangerous annual event. No other gathering in the city has such violence. Just end it.
Those Islands don’t need to be perfect…how about a modern sewage system. And those politicians do their photo op on the safe end of the Parkway and leave. We party way too much as it is so if shutting it down saves a life..then so be it.
Those Islands don’t need to be perfect…how about a modern sewage system. And those politicians do their photo op on the safe end of the Parkway and leave. We party way too much as it is so if shutting it down saves a life..then so be it.