Cuomo aide shot during J’Ouvert celebration taken off life support, An aide to Gov. Cuomo died Wednesday, nine days after he was hit in the head by a stray bullet during a J’Ouvert celebration, the man’s family said.
“He was removed from life support, we had to make that decision,” Carey Gabay’s shaken mother-in-law told the Daily News as the grief-stricken family left Kings County Hospital.
Gabay had been declared brain dead, the family said.There are difficult decisions we will face in the coming hours and days as our family struggles to process what this means for us,” his family said in a earlier Wednesday. “This is a nightmare that’s shaken our resolve and tested our faith.”
Gabay, the 43-year-old Harvard-educated son of Jamaican immigrants who was recently named first deputy counsel to the Empire State Development Corp., was attending a J’Ouvert celebration on Bedford Ave. in Crown Heights at 3:45 a.m. on Sept. 7. He ran for cover when gunfire erupted, but an errant bullet hit him in the head.Carey was the epitome of an outstanding public servant,” Cuomo said in a statement. “No one should have to experience the pain of losing someone they love to random gun violence.”
Detectives were closing in on a suspect Wednesday. “We do have some identifications and are going forward with that right now,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
“He was removed from life support, we had to make that decision,” Carey Gabay’s shaken mother-in-law told the Daily News as the grief-stricken family left Kings County Hospital.
Gabay had been declared brain dead, the family said.There are difficult decisions we will face in the coming hours and days as our family struggles to process what this means for us,” his family said in a earlier Wednesday. “This is a nightmare that’s shaken our resolve and tested our faith.”
Gabay, the 43-year-old Harvard-educated son of Jamaican immigrants who was recently named first deputy counsel to the Empire State Development Corp., was attending a J’Ouvert celebration on Bedford Ave. in Crown Heights at 3:45 a.m. on Sept. 7. He ran for cover when gunfire erupted, but an errant bullet hit him in the head.Carey was the epitome of an outstanding public servant,” Cuomo said in a statement. “No one should have to experience the pain of losing someone they love to random gun violence.”
Detectives were closing in on a suspect Wednesday. “We do have some identifications and are going forward with that right now,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
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