By Winnie Hu and Benjamin Mueller
A Cuomo administration lawyer (click here) who was shot in the head during a predawn celebration before the West Indian American Day Parade last week died on Wednesday evening, according to a family friend.
The
lawyer, Carey W. Gabay, 43, was a bystander caught in a shootout in
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that the police believe to have been between
gangs.
Mr. Gabay was taken to Kings County Hospital Center,
where he was in critical condition in a coma in recent days. His family
and friends had been keeping vigil there. He was declared brain-dead on
Tuesday night, and then taken off a respirator.
“We ask that our privacy be respected during this difficult time,” Mr. Gabay’s family said in a statement....
