New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, said two people were shot outside his Long Island home as his daughters did their homework inside. From The New York Post:
“My daughters Mikayla and Arianna were doing homework on the first floor,” said Zeldin, who was not at the house in Shirley at the time. “They heard the shots. Boom! They went upstairs and locked themselves in the bathroom.“They’re freaked out,” the congressman said of his 16-year-old girls. “One of the bullets was found 30 feet from where my daughters were doing their homework.”
The authorities classified “the shooting as gang-related and were still looking for the gunman or gunmen.”
A victim “jumped over the congressman’s fence trying to escape getting shot.” He knocked over a “Zeldin for Governor.” Another victim was shot in the chest. A bullet “grazed” another victim.
Sources told The New York Post the shooting had nothing to do with Zeldin.
On July 21, a man attacked Zeldin with a self-defense cat keychain at a campaign stop. The man supposedly told Zeldin, “You’re done.”
Zeldin is almost even with incumbent Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Zeldin opined about the violence and crime wreaking havoc in the area and New York City:
He said his front porch, where he had been interviewed by The Post just a day prior, “is now part of the crime scene.“The local police have cordoned off the area,” he said.A law enforcement source said there was blood all over the property.“Crime is out of control,” Zeldin said in a statement. “Like so many New Yorkers, crime literally made its way to our front doorstep.“There was blood in the rock right next to the porch,” Zeldin added. “One of the shooting victims was underneath the porch. The other was underneath bushes near the porch.”Zeldin said he and his wife, Diana, had just left the house to attend a Columbus Day Parade in the Morris Park neighborhood in The Bronx.
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