Lee Zeldin says NY crime crisis 'showed up at our doorstep' after shooting outside home with daughters inside

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Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., spoke out against the growing crime crisis after a shooting took place outside his home in Shirley Sunday night.

Zeldin said the problem "hit extremely close to home."  The New York Republican gubernatorial candidate told "Fox & Friends" Monday that his two daughters were doing homework in the kitchen when they heard multiple gunshots followed by screams just outside.They locked themselves in an upstairs bathroom and called 911. "You had two people who got shot who were essentially laying down about ten feet from where they were doing homework," Zeldin said. "One of the bullets landed about 30 feet from where the girls were doing homework." New York GOP candidate for governor Rep.

Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y. said that the crime crisis in New York is hitting "close to home" after two people were shot just outside his house on Sunday afternoon. (Fox News) Zeldin instructed his daughters to stay in the locked bathroom until police said the situation was all clear, which he said took some time.

The incident, Zeldin said, brought the crime crisis to his front doorstep in Long Island. "When we were getting back to the house, we had to go through crime scene tape.