3 shot during pool party at swanky Long Island mansion hotel

Three folks have been shot when gunfire broke out at a pool occasion at a swanky Lengthy Island resort on Sunday afternoon, native police mentioned.

Two party-goers and a safety guard have been shot simply after 5 p.m. through the non-public celebration at The Mansion at Glen Cove, a luxurious resort on Lengthy Island’s “Gold Coast” which is a well-liked marriage ceremony venue.

A shooter opened fireplace amid a “disturbance” amongst attendees of the gathering marketed on-line because the “Huge Fendi Superstar B-Day Pool Get together” Glen Cove Police mentioned.

The three victims suffered non-life-threatening accidents, police mentioned. They're being handled at space hospitals.

The occasion drew between 150 to 200 folks and was ongoing when the pictures have been fired, in response to the native division.

A suspect fled the scene earlier than cops arrived and stays at giant. Nonetheless, Glen Cove Police mentioned there isn't any menace to the general public and their investigation is ongoing.

Police say the suspect fled the occasion earlier than they arrived on the non-public pool occasion held on the Glen Cove.

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Police are noticed close to the scene the place a gunmen shot three folks throughout a pool occasion at The Mansion at Glen Cove on July 10, 2022.

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The resort’s out of doors pool, which options poolside daybeds and cabanas in addition to a view of the mansion’s gardens, was closed for the non-public occasion Sunday, in response to the venue’s calendar.

The violent incident provides to the mansion’s storied and glamorous historical past.

The Mansion at Glen Cove was in-built 1910 by architect Charles Adams Platt. The 55-acre property was house to company lawyer John Teele Pratt and Ruth Baker Pratt, who turned the primary girl elected to Congress from New York, earlier than it was transformed to a convention middle resort in 1967.

The unidentified victims have been shot after 5 p.m. after a disturbance broke out amongst attendees.

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The constructing and its grounds have been additionally the partial set of two standard films within the Nineteen Fifties — Sabrina starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden and Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest starring Cary Grant.

Administration for the Mansion didn’t instantly return a request for remark.