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   A lawyer with the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was   
   critically wounded after being shot in the head early on Monday   
   in Brooklyn, officials said.   
      
   The lawyer, Carey Gabay, 43, was taken to Kings County Hospital   
   Center. By Monday afternoon, Mr. Gabay was “not doing well,”   
   according to Mr. Cuomo, who spoke with reporters shortly after   
   visiting the hospital.   
      
   The shooting was one of a handful of violent episodes, including   
   a fatal stabbing, in the hours before the annual West Indian   
   American Day Parade in Brooklyn.   
      
   The circumstances of Mr. Gabay’s shooting were still under   
   investigation. Mr. Gabay was shot around 3:40 a.m., near the   
   corner of Bedford Avenue and Sullivan Place, about two blocks   
   from Prospect Park. A Police Department spokeswoman said that a   
   dispute preceded the shooting, but added that it was unclear   
   whether Mr. Gabay was involved. No arrests had been made, the   
   spokeswoman said.   
      
   Mr. Cuomo suggested that Mr. Gabay was a bystander and not the   
   intended target. He said Mr. Gabay was out with his family   
   celebrating J’ouvert, a West Indian holiday of street parties   
   and dancing that precede the parade and have been marred by   
   violence in the past.   
      
   “Somebody fired 8 to 10 times and he got hit with a random   
   bullet,” Mr. Cuomo told reporters at the parade in Brooklyn,   
   which is the culmination of J’ouvert.   
      
   “It is so painful, so unnecessary, so sad,” Mr. Cuomo said. He   
   said he didn’t know what it would take for the country “to come   
   to its senses with gun violence. It’s the same story almost   
   weekly. Tragedy after tragedy after tragedy.”   
      
   In January, Mr. Gabay, a Harvard-educated lawyer, was appointed   
   first deputy counsel for the Empire State Development   
   Corporation, the state’s main economic development agency.   
   Previously, he had been an assistant counsel to Mr. Cuomo. Mr.   
   Gabay grew up in public housing in the Bronx and his wife was   
   pregnant with the couple’s first child, the governor said.   
      
   “He could have been at any law firm he wanted to be, making   
   multiples of what we paid him,” Mr. Cuomo said. “He worked for   
   the state because he wanted to give back and he wanted to do the   
   right thing.”   
      
   Mr. Cuomo said he visited Mr. Gabay’s family at the hospital and   
   described “the tears and the frustration.”   
      
   “I’m governor of New York and there’s nothing I can say and   
   there’s nothing I can do,” he said. “And sometimes it just   
   hurts.”   
      
   Though crime rates in New York City remain historically low, the   
   number of shooting victims is up this year compared with 2014.   
   Speaking at the parade, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city was   
   working hard to get firearms off the streets, but, echoing the   
   governor, said more needed to be done nationally to address to   
   scourge of gun violence.   
      
   “Here in this city, we will fight every day, use every tool we   
   have to deprive criminals of guns, but we need a bigger change   
   in this nation to finally insure that guns don’t flow freely   
   across state borders and into the wrong hands,” Mr. de Blasio   
   said.   
      
   The shooting topped a violent night in Brooklyn in the hours   
   before the start of the parade. About an hour and a half before   
   Mr. Gabay was shot, at a different corner of Prospect Park, a 24-   
   year-old man was stabbed to death and a 21-year-old was shot in   
   the buttocks and hospitalized. There have been no arrests in   
   either case.   
      
   The police commissioner, William J. Bratton, and Mr. de Blasio   
   eschewed suggestions that festivities surrounding the West   
   Indian Day Parade be banned. Mr. Bratton said police have to   
   deal with gang violence and with crime in the area, but “that’s   
   no reason to not go forward with the events each year.”   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/nyregion/cuomo-administration-   
   lawyer-is-shot-in-the-head.html?_r=0   
         
      
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