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New York governor's lawyer shot in head

Violence mars early hours partying ahead of West Indian Day Parade

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Participants dance during the West Indian Day Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York Photo: REUTERS/Eric Thayer

By AP

1:21AM BST 08 Sep 2015

New York's West Indian Day Parade, a colourful celebration of Caribbean culture, was marred by predawn violence on Monday that left one man dead and an aide to the state governor in a critical condition.

Andrew Cuomo identified his wounded staffer as Carey Gabay, a first deputy general counsel at the Empire State Development Corporation. Mr Gabay was walking with his brother near the Brooklyn parade route at 3:40 am when he was caught in the crossfire between two gangs, according to police officials.

A bullet struck Mr Gabay, 43, in the head. Mr Cuomo said his aide, a Harvard-educated lawyer who had worked as an assistant counsel to the governor, and his wife were expecting their first child.

Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York state  Photo: AP

"I'm the governor of the state of New York, and there's not a thing I can do," Mr Cuomo said after he visited his staffer's family at Kings County Hospital. "There's not a thing I can say, and there's nothing I can do. And sometimes it just hurts."

No arrests have made been, police said. The shooting was one of several outbursts of violence in the neighbourhoods surrounding the parade, which included the stabbing death of a 24-year-old man at 2 am near Grand Army Plaza.

Bloodshed before or after the West Indian Day celebration has become a familiar part of the parade routine. Last year, a recent parolee opened fire into a crowd, killing one man and wounding several others. And in 2013, a 1-year-old boy sitting in his pushchair was killed by a bullet meant for his father.

Bill de Blasio, city mayor, and William Bratton, police commissioner, dismissed talk of scuttling the preparade festivities - which centre on a surreal midnight march known as J'Ouvert - and said the New York Police Department was working with local leaders to make the event safer. There was a heavy police presence along the route, and several NYPD helicopters hovered overhead.

The parade went on as scheduled and drew hundreds of thousands of people to the stretch along Eastern Parkway. Throbbing basslines pulsated along the route, propelling outlandishly clad revelers to dance and those along the sidelines to bob their heads.

After years of declining crime, this year has seen a surge of 10 per cent in New York's murder rate.

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