The governor gave an emotional eulogy at Carey Gabay’s funeral at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Clinton Hill.
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43-year-old Gabay was shot in the head during the J’ouvert festivities that took place before the West Indian Parade.
Gabay, a Harvard-trained lawyer who was raised in public housing in the Bronx by Jamaican immigrant parents, began working for Cuomo in 2011 as an assistant counsel.
“The violence has become so brutal, so aimless, that the most innocent can be struck down anytime anywhere”.
He also called upon his fellow Democrats in Congress to shut down the government until they get an iron-clad national gun control law passed.
No one has been arrested in connection with Gabay’s death.
“The killing has to stop”.
The family chose to take Gabay off of life support over a week ago after doctors determined that he was brain-dead.
The 43-year-old, who served as first deputy general counsel at the Empire State Development Corp., died September 15 after being placed in a medically induced coma.
“It’s not enough for New York State to pass a gun law and close the front door when the guns are coming in the back door, when the guns can come up from Virginia or South Carolina for anyone willing to take a auto ride”, he said, writes Reuters. “The spread of gun violence has to stop and it has to stop now”.
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Police are still looking for Gabay’s killer.
