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Shooting Near Zeldin’s Shirley Home

Thu, 10/13/2022 - 09:59
A police detail was posted outside Representative Lee Zeldin’s Shirley residence after two teenagers were shot nearby on Sunday.
Tom Gogola

Two teenagers were shot on Sunday near the Shirley residence of Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District.

Campaigning on Sunday, the congressman said that he and his wife had just left a Columbus Day parade in the Bronx when he received a call from one of his twin daughters alerting them to having heard gunshots and screams. His other daughter was calling 911, he said. He said that a bullet was found about 30 feet from where his daughters were sitting.

Footage from the security cameras on his property showed three people who appeared to be together, Mr. Zeldin said. Two of them had been shot. One was found lying under the porch, another under a bush nearby.

During a July campaign appearance in Fairport, N.Y., Mr. Zeldin had been confronted by a man holding a sharp object. “It hits really close to home when it shows up on your front doorstep,” he said to reporters outside his residence on Sunday night.

Mr. Zeldin, the Republican and Conservative Party nominee for governor of New York, has made crime a centerpiece of his campaign against Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is running for election after taking office in August 2021, following the resignation of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Most polls put the governor comfortably ahead.

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