Man Arrested in California in Connection to Carey Gabay Shooting

BROOKLYN, NY — A man was arrested Thursday in California in connection to the 2015 shooting death of Carey Gabay.

Kenny Bazile was arrested shortly before 2 p.m. in Palm Desert, California, an NYPD spokesman confirmed Thursday.

The spokesman said that the arrest may have been made by the U.S. Marshalls.

Bazile will be transported to New York, where he will be charged in connection to Gabay's murder, the spokesman said.

Gabay, a Harvard-trained attorney and former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, died in September 2015 after being caught in an alleged gang shootout in front of the Ebbets Field Houses in Crown Heights.

At the time, he had been returning home from the year's J'Ouvert festival, which proceeds the West Indian Day Parade.

This past June, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson and outgoing NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton announced that three men had been charged with Gabay's murder. A fourth had previously been hit with weapons charges related to the shooting. Thompson said the investigation into the shootout that claimed Gabay's life was ongoing.

The NYPD and the Bill de Blasio administration have promised extreme vigilance at this year's J'Ouvert celebration. On Wednesday, de Blasio said that thousands of extra officers, better lighting and a host of new policing tactics would make the event "the safest J'Ouvert ever."

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.