Gov aide’s killers get max jail time
Three men convicted in the killing of Gov. Cuomo aide Carey Gabay were hit with maximum prison sentences Wednesday after the victim’s relatives delivered a series of heartbreaking impact statements.
“I will raise my son as a single mother, not by choice, but by the reckless actions that have taken my husband away,” said widow Trenelle Gabay, who got pregnant using sperm harvested from Gabay before he died.
“My son will only know his father through stories,” she added, her voice rising and her body shaking. “The wound in my heart is eternal.”
The three men — (below l. to r.) Micah Alleyne, Kenny Bazile and Stanley Elainor — were acquitted of murder in the slaying of Gabay, 43, at the 2015 J’Ouvert fest in Brooklyn.
But they couldn’t escape stiff sentences.
Alleyne and Brazile were convicted of manslaughter and weapons possession. Alleyne was sentenced to 30 years, and Brazile was hit with 25. Elianor got seven years for reckless endangerment.
Gabay was walking home after the September J’Ouvert festival in Crown Heights when gang members targeting rivals opened fire into a crowd.
A bullet slammed into Gabay’s head as he ducked behind a car. After nine wrenching days at the hospital, he was taken off a ventilator.
In her statement to the court, Gabay’s sister Stephanie GabaySmith called out the defendants by name.
“Mr. Brazile, Mr. Elianor and Mr. Alleyne killed my baby brother,” she said.
“How do I come back from that? My heart is broken and my soul is forever injured. I’m not sure how I can come back from that.”
Gabay, a Bronx-born Harvard grad, left behind high-paying finance jobs to work in public service.