John Jefferson
Background: The crime scene outside Lee Zeldin’s Long Island home on Oct. 8, 2022 (WCBS). Inset top: Noah Green (Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office). Inset bottom: Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., speaks at a rally with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump in Concord, N.H., Friday, Jan. 19, 2024 (AP Photo/Matt Rourke).
A 20-year-old New York gang member admitted to shooting outside an ex-congressman’s Long Island home as his daughters were doing homework in the kitchen.
Noah Green, 20, pleaded guilty to attempted murder, conspiracy and other charges for shooting at three people, striking two of them in the chest, in front of the home of former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., in 2022, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced in a news release.
“The events that took place on October 9, 2022, were traumatic for my family and couldn’t have hit any closer to home,” Zeldin said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “I am thankful for Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney and the many law enforcement officials who swiftly acted to keep my daughters safe, transport the victims, and take the necessary legal action to hold Mr. Green accountable.”
In the news release, Tierney said his office had set up a gang bureau to prioritize such violence.
“As a result, this case was swiftly solved, and the shooter was held accountable, along with the other gang members involved in a variety of dangerous crimes,” he said. “This guilty plea with a promised twelve-year sentence should send the message that we will not tolerate gang violence in Suffolk County.”
The bloodshed happened that day when Green left his home with another individual and got into a stolen 2022 Honda CRV. While Green was driving the vehicle, they encountered three rivals walking down the street in front of Zeldin’s home, prosecutors said. Green shot out of the vehicle multiple times, striking two teens in the chest. The victims survived.
Zeldin, who was running for New York governor at the time, and his wife were on the road when the shooting occurred, but their 16-year-old daughters were in the kitchen doing their homework. As Green’s victims lay on the ground under the front porch, Zeldin’s daughters ran upstairs, locked themselves in a bathroom and called 911. They were not physically hurt.
“I’m standing in front of crime scene tape in front of my own house,” Zeldin told reporters then, local CBS affiliate WCBS reported. “You can’t get me more outraged than right now.”
One of his daughters told reporters about the terror.
“It was very scary, and we didn’t know if they were coming after us,” she said, the New York Daily News reported. “And to have that on our lawn. It’s like right in front of our house.”
Afterward, Green boasted on social media about the shooting, posting photos and videos online of him and other gang members with weapons and stolen vehicles and taunting rivals, authorities said.
Green was caught on Oct. 31, 2022, when cops spotted him leaving his house and getting into the CRV that was used in the shooting. He was apprehended after a brief foot chase that included him jumping onto the hood and roof of a police vehicle. Police recovered a loaded Taurus 9 mm pistol with a high-capacity magazine — the weapon authorities said was used in the shooting. In the CRV, police found shell casings from the shooting lodged between the windshield and the hood of the vehicle, authorities said.
Green was among 18 members of the “No Fake Love” or “NFL” gang indicted in December 2022, authorities said. The gang, affiliated with the Crip and Blood street gangs, was indicted for shootings, armed robberies and the thefts of seven French bulldogs, prosecutors said. The gang members and associates pride themselves as “Everybody Killers,” authorities said. True to their moniker, prosecutors alleged then that they targeted rival gang members and innocent civilians.
Green faces 12 years in prison when he is set to be sentenced on Oct. 15.
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