Long Island man pleads guilty to 2022 gang shooting of 2 teens in front of former Rep. Lee Zeldin's home

SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. (1010 WINS) — Noah Green, the man who shot two teens in front of former Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Long Island home in 2022 and was charged in a larger indictment of over a dozen gang members, pleaded guilty on Thursday to attempted murder and related charges, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced.

The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree attempted murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of second-degree conspiracy, all felonies.

According to court documents and Green’s guilty plea, he left his Shirley home with another individual on Oct. 9, 2022, and got into a stolen 2022 Honda CRV. While Green was driving, they spotted three rival gang members walking down the street in front of the home of then-Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Zeldin, and he fired off multiple shots.

Two of the gang members, both 17-year-old boys, were struck and injured, though they both survived. At the time, police said that the victims “attempted to hide in the yard of a residence” after being shot in the drive-by.

"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 statement on Thursday. "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."

During the shooting, Zeldin’s twin daughters Mikayla and Arianna were inside doing homework. The 16-year-olds ran upstairs, locked themselves in the bathroom and called 911.

“What especially was traumatizing to the girls was that they feared that these people were trying to get into the house, targeting them,” Zeldin told 1010 WINS at the time. “So not having all the facts, not knowing exactly what was going on.”

Zeldin and his wife were campaigning in the Bronx when the afternoon shooting occurred.

Green boasted about the shooting on social media and through other electronic communications, and he frequently posted his gang affiliation with the organization “No Fake Love” on social media accounts, which prosecutors said he used “as a way to taunt and challenge rivals.”

Weeks later, on the afternoon of Halloween, law enforcement was conducting surveillance and spotted Green leave his residence and enter the driver’s seat of the same stolen Honda.

He was approached by police and began to run away, jumping the hood and roof of a police car, causing damage.

Prosecutors said that during the pursuit, Green continuously refused to comply with the officers’ commands and tried to reach for his pants pockets, where police recovered a loaded Taurus 9mm pistol with a high-capacity magazine.

An examination determined it was the same gun used in the shooting in front of Zeldin’s home, and a search of the stolen Honda found shell casings from the shooting still lodged between the windshield and hood of the vehicle.

Green is due back in court on Oct. 15, where he is expected to be sentenced to 12 years in prison and five years of post-release supervision.

“On my first day in office, we established a gang bureau to conduct comprehensive long-term investigations to keep the people of Suffolk County safe from gang violence,” Tierney said. “This case was swiftly solved, and the shooter was held accountable, along with the other gang members involved in a variety of dangerous crimes."