CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Carey Gabay, an aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, has died after suffering a gunshot wound to the head during a pre-West Indian Day Parade shooting.
Gabay, 43, was shot during the J'ouvert Festival on September 7. He was walking with his brother near the parade route just before 4 a.m., when shots rang out. He was rushed to Kings County Hospital where he remained for nine days before succumbing to his injuries.
Wednesday afternoon his family announced that Gabay was brain dead.
Gabay was a first deputy general counselor to Governor Cuomo. Cuomo called the Harvard-educated lawyer an "outstanding public servant." Gabay joined Cuomo's administration in 2011.
No arrests have been made at this time. Days after the shooting, police released a sketch of one of the suspects.
Police are looking for this man in connection to a shooting that fatally wounded an aide to Governor Cuomo. (DCPI)
Police later released a video of the two suspects.
A $12,500 reward for information about the attack has been posted by police.
The shooting was one of several violent incidents surrounding the parade. A 24-year-old man was fatally stabbed that same day, not far from the parade route.
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