Two shot exterior New York Congressman Lee Zeldin’s dwelling By Reuters

(Reuters) – Two individuals have been shot on Sunday exterior the house 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 stated in an announcement.

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

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

Zeldin stated solely his two daughters have been at dwelling on the time of the capturing. Additional particulars of the capturing and its motives weren’t clear.

“My daughters are shaken, however okay. Like so many New Yorkers, crime has actually made its option to our entrance door,” Zeldin stated in his assertion.

Suffolk County Police stated the 2 individuals injured within the incident have been transported to space hospitals for therapy.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul, in opposition to whom Zeldin is working, stated 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 prices of assaulting a member of Congress utilizing a lethal weapon. There was no indication that the Sunday capturing was linked to the July assault.