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Summer pool party ended in gunshots; 3 injured in New York hotel mansion

Two partygoers and a security guard were shot during a private celebration at a luxury hotel on the “Gold Coast” of Long Island (NY), a popular place to celebrate weddings.

A gunman opened fire amid an “uproar” among those attending the meeting in “The Mansion at Glen Cove”, on Sunday around 5 p.m. The event had been advertised online as the “Big Holiday Pool Party.” Fendi celebrity birthday said the police Glen Cove, Nassau County.

The three victims were treated in area hospitals and were in stable condition, he explained. New York Post. The event attracted between 150 and 200 guests and was underway when the shots were fired, according to local police.

One suspect fled the scene before police arrived and was still at large as of last night. He has not been publicly identified and the motive for the attack is unknown.

The hotel’s outdoor swimming pool, which has beds and cabins around, as well as a view of the gardens of the mansion, was closed for the private event on Sunday. Management did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the New York Post.

The violent incident adds to the glamorous history of that mansion, built in 1910 by architect Charles Adams Platt. The 55-acre property was home to corporate attorney John Teele Pratt and Ruth Baker Pratt, who became the first woman elected to Congress from New York. It was then transformed into a hotel and conference center in 1967.

The building and its grounds were also the partial setting of two popular movies in the 1950s: “Sabrina”, starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, and “North by Northwest”de Alfred Hitchcock, con Cary Grant.

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