New York Daily News

J’ouvert slay jury sees vid of crowd panic

- Andrew Keshner

VIDEO OF A J’OUVERT shooting in Brooklyn that killed an aide to Gov. Cuomo showed frightened partygoers ducking in doorways, cowering in corners and scrambling for safety as shots rang out.

At a trial for four people accused of murder in the September 2015 death of Carey Gabay, 43, jurors got a look at the chaos that ensued during the predawn festival when police said rival gang members traded shots on a Crown Heights street.

A stray bullet struck Gabay, as the Empire State Developmen­t Corp. attorney was scrambling for safety in an Ebbets Field Houses parking lot just off Bedford Ave. He was taken off life support about a week later.

Gabay’s brother, Aaron McNaughton, had to step out of the courtroom as the clip played.

Brooklyn prosecutor­s say alleged gunmen Stanley Elianor, Keith Luncheon, Micah Alleyne and Kenny Bazile created a “zone of danger” with their bullet barrage. The men insist prosecutor­s can’t pin Gabay’s death on them, and some say they weren’t even there.

One camera showed an armed man darting into a building after revelers had already rushed in. The camera showed the man has “SKO” tattooed on his right forearm. Authoritie­s later said they matched that tattoo to Bazile.

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