Two shot outside New York Congressman Lee Zeldin’s home

Oct 9 (Reuters) – Two folks had been shot on Sunday outside the home of New York congressman and Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, who has made addressing crime and violence a key level of his marketing campaign, he mentioned in an announcement.

The capturing appeared to don’t have any connection to the Zeldin household, CNN and the Wall Street Journal reported, citing police and officers acquainted with the continued probe.

Zeldin mentioned he didn’t know the identities of the 2 people who had been shot, however mentioned they’d been laying down below his entrance porch and the bushes in entrance of it.

Zeldin mentioned solely his two daughters had been at home on the time of the capturing. Further particulars of the capturing and its motives weren’t clear.

“My daughters are shaken, but ok. Like so many New Yorkers, crime has literally made its way to our front door,” Zeldin mentioned in his assertion.

Suffolk County Police mentioned the 2 folks injured within the incident had been transported to space hospitals for remedy.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul, towards whom Zeldin is operating, mentioned she had been briefed on the capturing.

Zeldin was attacked at a July marketing campaign occasion by a New York man who now faces federal costs of assaulting a member of Congress utilizing a lethal weapon. There was no indication that the Sunday capturing was linked to the July assault.

Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Julia Harte; Editing by Stephen Coates

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