Cuomo Lawyer Shot In Head Carey GabayCarey 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.

Cuomo Lawyer Shot In Head Carey GabayRickie 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]


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  1. And where is the “Black Lives Matter” crowd? Crickets, I am sure. The more typical type of violence relates to cases like these involving local criminal thugs, not the sensationalized and rarer type of case they focus upon.

    • You truly are an idiot. And I don’t use that word lightly.

      Have you been to a community meeting? Working with the police to curb violence is always being discussed.
      You can be against police brutality and citizen gun violence. I believe that effective policing means not killing unarmed black and brown people- even in neighborhoods of high gun violence.

  2. You truly are an idiot. And I don’t use that word lightly.

    Have you been to a community meeting? Working with the police to curb violence is always being discussed.
    You can be against police brutality and citizen gun violence. I believe that effective policing means not killing unarmed black and brown people- even in neighborhoods of high gun violence.

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