Newtown nut’s fears
A TOP CUOMO administration aide is about to become a dad — nearly three years after the innocent bystander was gunned down during a turf war between two gangs.
Trenelle Gabay, the widow of slain Empire State Development Corp. attorney Carey Gabay, is due to welcome the couple’s miracle son in two months.
“Here I am, and I just can’t wait to meet this little guy,” the mom-to-be told WCBS-TV.
The wife of the Harvard-educated lawyer told the station she is carrying a child conceived with sperm medically collected from her husband prior to his September 2015 death.
Gabay, 43, was struck in the head when rival gangs unloaded more than 30 gunshots during a street shootout in the hours before the annual West Indian Day Parade.
Five suspects were eventually charged in connection with the killing during J’Ouvert, the predawn party that precedes the parade.
Four of the defendants in Gabay’s murder during the wild showdown were in court Wednesday, with hearings expected to continue Thursday.
Trenelle showed WCBS an ultrasound of her baby boy, noting a resemblance to her late husband.
“That is Carey’s profile,” she said. “Definitely his mouth and his jaw line, and it’s just God’s miracle.”
Gabay, the son of Jamaican immigrants, was first deputy counsel for the development corporation.
Gabay and his brother were caught in the crossfire of a Sept. 7, 2015, gunfight between rival gangs in Crown Heights, authorities said.
Gabay died nine days later when family members decided to take him off life support.
Shooting defendants Stanley Elianor, Kenny Bazile, Micah Alleyne and Keith Luncheon appeared Wednesday for pretrial hearing regarding statements made to police after their arrests.
Prosecutors said the fifth defendant, Tyshawn Crawford, will not participate in the hearings.
On May 25, 2016, Alleyne was picked up by police after a confidential informant identified him. Cops said they believed that Alleyne fired the fatal bullet at Gabay, and he considered surrendering before his arrest.
“This has been weighing on my mind,” he allegedly told detectives. “I thought about turning myself in.”
Alleyne, 26, was shown several clips of the gunfire and identified himself in the videos.
“He kept saying he was on the sidewalk and the victim was behind him and he was shooting in the other direction,” said a crime scene detective who testified during the hearing.
The suspect was living in a Queens motel that was turned into a city homeless shelter when taken into custody.
Elianor was busted on Sept. 18, 2015, after a DNA match linked him to a gun found after the shooting. Elianor allegedly identified Bazile — the last of the five suspects arrested.
He was extradited from Palm Desert, Calif., in September 2016. RIGHT-WING broadcaster Alex Jones, in his latest conspiracy theory, predicted his claim that the Sandy Hook school slaughter was a hoax would land him in jail or a casket.
Jones, during a Wednesday appearance on his “Infowars” program, responded to defamation lawsuits brought by the parents of three slain Sandy Hook students over his repeated and unfounded claims.
“They physically, I can guarantee you, want to assassinate my character ahead of setting me up, putting me in prison or having me killed,” Jones said.
He went on to suggest that anyone who didn’t believe his claim was naive and compared himself to assassinated President John Kennedy.
“If you don’t think the globalists don’t kill people all day — they’ve hijacked America, they killed President Kennedy, they’re trying to kill President Trump,” said Jones.
The suits were filed Monday in Texas by the parents of slain 6-year-olds Jesse Lewis and Noah Pozner, two of the 20 first-graders killed along with a dozen school staffers in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012.
Jones, accused in the lawsuits of spreading “heartless and vile” lies about the mass shooting, claimed he wasn’t backing off his earlier remarks.