Video has shown the chaotic scenes that unfolded when two gangs opened fire on each other in a shootout during which an aide to Andrew Cuomo was killed by a stray bullet.
The trial of four men accused of killing Carey Gabay during the Caribbean J’Ouvert Festival in Brooklyn, was shown the footage by NYPD detective Raymond Wayne.
The footage taken from a camera in doorway shows large number of panic stricken revellers fleeing down the street as the shots rang out, with some trying to get through the door to safety.
Gabay was a Harvard-educated lawyer who was raised in public housing in the Bronx by Jamaican immigrant parents.
The 43-year-old was named first deputy counsel for New York’s economic development agency in January 2015, prior to which held the position of assistant counsel and worked for the governor since 2011.
Last year, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson indicted Tyshawn Crawford, Keith Luncheon, Micah Alleyne, Stanley Elianor and Kenny Bazile on a number of charges including murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the case of Carey Gabay.
Crawford agreed to a plea deal and is expected to testify against the other four, it was recently reported.
Governor Cuomo called Gabay ‘an outstanding public servant’ after the shooting.
Carey Gabay was 43 when he was killed. He was described as an ‘outstanding public servant’ as well as a ‘beautiful’ and ‘sweet’ man by Gov. Cuomo
Gabay’s widow Trenelle, pictured with him, is eight months pregnant with his child three years after his death
‘This was a beautiful man, a sweet man, a man who was giving back to his community, a gentleman, who was involved in nothing, just walking down the street with his brother, wife,’ Cuomo said.
‘He was the lawyer who rewrote the rent laws that protected so many tenants. It’s a reminder that the violence has to stop.’
Earlier this year it emerged his widow Trenelle is eight months pregnant with his child three years after his death.
Doctors were able to take sperm from Carey before he died, and she was artificially inseminated last year. She is planning to name her baby Carey, after his father.
Trenelle has started the Carey Gabay Foundation in his name which she hopes will create awareness about gun violence.