NEW YORK (AP) — An aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was fighting for his life Tuesday, a day after being caught in the crossfire between two gangs in Brooklyn.
Carey Gabay, a first deputy general counsel at the Empire State Development Corp., was shot in the head during a pre-dawn party celebrating the West Indian Day parade.
Police called Gabay an unintended victim of an exchange of more than two dozen shots from up to three guns at 3:40 a.m. Monday near the parade route. Investigators were still searching for the shooters on Tuesday.
In a statement, Gabay's family said he was in a coma and "surrounded by his loved ones" at a Brooklyn hospital.
"Our family is thankful for the outpouring of prayers that we've received in the aftermath of this senseless violence," the family said. "Carey has always been an inspiration to all of us and he continues to inspire us with his fight for survival."
Cuomo called the 43-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer "an outstanding public servant" who joined his administration in 2011.
"There have been no developments that have been positive," Cuomo told reporters on the plane ride home from Puerto Rico, which he visited to discuss ways New York could help the U.S. territory's economic crisis. "Apparently the damage was quite extensive."
Police Commissioner William Bratton told reporters that investigators were focusing on two gangs whose members are well-known to the New York Police Department.
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