New York congressman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin says his family is safe after two teenagers were shot outside his Long Island home on Sunday afternoon.

The boys, both 17, were walking with a third teenager on the street in Shirley, New York, where Zeldin lives when they were hit by gunfire from a moving car, local police said.

The wounded teens then tried to hide in Zeldin’s yard, ducking under his porch and into the bushes, while the person who was with them fled.

Zeldin and his wife were not at home at the time of the shooting, but their teenage daughters were in the kitchen doing homework when they heard gunshots and screaming, the congressman said.

“One of the bullets was actually found 30ft (9.14m) from where they sitting,” Zeldin said at a news conference late on Sunday.

Police said the wounded teens were treated at an area hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening.

Authorities didn’t release their names.

“At this time investigators have no reason to believe there is any connection between the shooting and the residence,” said a statement from the Suffolk county police department, whose jurisdiction includes Shirley.

Zeldin said he did nt know either of the injured teens. He said his 16-year-old daughters locked themselves in a bathroom and called 911.

The congressman added that he and his family were shaken but OK.

Zeldin and his wife were returning from a parade in the Bronx when the shooting occurred. He said police officers were at his home investigating on Sunday evening and were looking over the home’s security cameras.

Police said they had no information to release about who fired the shots.

Zeldin is challenging New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, in an election set for 8 November, and he has made violent crime a focus of his campaign. He has called for the state’s bail laws to be toughened, among other measures.

“Like so many New Yorkers, crime has literally made its way to our front door,” Zeldin said Sunday.

It is the second scare he has had in several months. In July, while Zeldin campaigned in upstate New York, a man approached him onstage and thrust a sharp object near the congressman’s head and neck.

He was uninjured, and the attacker was arrested.

Hochul said in a statement posted on Twitter that she had been briefed on the shooting outside Zeldin’s home.

“As we await more details, I’m relieved to hear the Zeldin family is safe and grateful for law enforcement’s quick response,” the governor said.