Three Men Charged With Murder of Former Cuomo Aide
Authorities have arrested two more men in connection to the shooting death of an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Micah Alleyne, 24, was arrested last month in connection to the incident. A fourth alleged assailant, 25-year-old Stanley Elianor of Brooklyn, was indicted in October 2015 on criminal weapon possession charges.
Carey Gabay was walking with his brother in Brooklyn when he was gunned down in the street during festivities leading up to the West Indian Day Parade on September 7, 2015.
According to Thompson, by voluntarily engaging in a gunfight, each defendant is as responsible for Gabay’s death as the person who pulled the fateful trigger – a question Thompson said has yet to be answered.
Investigators discovered that “due to heightened tensions” there were numerous armed gang members in the area and had the intention to shoot any rivals on sight. He died nine days later when he was taken off life support.
It was not known if a tip led to Alleyne’s arrest, of the capture of the additional two males.
The NYPD and Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office are expected to announce more details at a press conference later this morning.
Outside the Ebbets Fields Houses, where the shooting occurred.
Thompson said the gunfight was the result of ongoing beef between the Folk Nation gang, which has members in the Crown Heights complex on Bedford Avenue, and a faction of the Crips gang known as the “8-Trey Crips”, based in Brownsville.
Alleyne, who admitted to firing a gun around the time Gabay was fatally shot, is now incarcerated. Since then, two more gunmen have been taken into custody.
In this photo taken December 12, 2011, and provided by the New York Governors Office, Carey Gabay, first deputy general counsel at the Empire State Development Corporation is shown.
“We’ll never be able to get into the heads of these young men, because they are mindless”, he said.
Attorneys Jay Cohen and Howard Kirsch, representing Luncheon and Crawford, respectively, said they had just been given their clients’ cases, and didn’t know them well enough to comment on their character. Luncheon’s attorney hasn’t returned a message. “With Carey’s help, NY passed the nation’s toughest gun safety law, but his murder underscores the fact that our federal gun laws are woefully inadequate”, Cuomo said.
