Lee Zeldin’s teen daughters detail terrifying shooting outside LI family home

Gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin’s twin teen daughters described Monday how they feared for his or her lives when bullets flew outdoors the household’s Lengthy Island house throughout a doable gang crime over the weekend.

“We’re 16,” Mikayla Zeldin mentioned on the metropolis’s Columbus Day Parade, the place her household marched. “To expertise one thing like that at this younger age could be very scary. We didn’t know in the event that they had been coming after us. To have that on our garden, it’s proper in entrance of our home.”

Her sister, Arianna, mentioned she didn’t know what to assume within the confusion at first.

“There have been lots of issues going by my head,” she mentioned. “After we each heard gunshots, we thought possibly it was fireworks. We thought it was fireworks as a result of individuals do this in our neighborhood. So I used to be very confused.

“Once we heard the screaming, we positively knew it was gunshots,” Arianna mentioned. “Once I noticed an individual on our garden, I didn’t know if he was the shooter or the one being focused.”

The teenagers had been alone on the home in Shirley doing their homework shortly earlier than 2:20 p.m. Sunday when pictures rang out within the quiet suburban neighborhood.

Zeldin’s twin teen daughters described how they feared for his or her lives.

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They initially thought the gunshots had been fireworks.

AP/Mary Altaffer

Zeldin, the GOP’s tough-on-crime candidate for governor who has served within the Home of Representatives since 2015, has mentioned his daughters ran upstairs, locked themselves in a rest room and known as 911.

Two 17-year-old boys, Joel Murphy and Elijah Robinson, had been wounded within the capturing, legislation enforcement sources mentioned. The pair had been strolling alongside the road with a pal when pictures rang out from a passing darkish car, placing the kids and Zeldin’s front-yard fence.

The third teenager, Tyler Smith, 15, who was unharmed, ran house in tears, his older brother, Tyvon Smith, instructed The Publish on Monday.

Suffolk County Police examine the scene of a capturing close to the house of gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin.

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Zeldin has mentioned one of many slugs got here inside 10 ft of the place his daughters had been sitting.

“We might have gotten harm,” Mikayla Zeldin mentioned. “We might have went to the hospital.

“I’m glad that the individuals who obtained harm went to the hospital,” she added. “I’m glad that they’re OK.”