Three people were shot when a shot was fired at a pool party at a sleek Long Island hotel Sunday afternoon, local police said.
Two party goers and a security guard were shot shortly after 5 p.m. during a private celebration at The Mansion at Glen Cove, a luxury hotel on Long Island’s “Golden Coast,” which is a place popular for weddings.
A shooter opened fire amid a “disturbance” among attendees at the meeting announced online as the “Fendi Celebrity Big Day Pool Party,” Glen Cove police said.
The three victims suffered injuries that did not endanger their lives, police said. They are being treated at hospitals in the area.
The event drew between 150 and 200 people and continued when the shots were fired, according to the local department.
A suspect fled the scene before police arrived and remains at large. However, Glen Cove police said there is no threat to the public and that their investigation is ongoing.
Police say the suspect fled the event before arriving at the private pool party held in Glen Cove. James Staubitser
The hotel’s outdoor pool, which includes sun beds and poolside cabins, as well as a view of the mansion’s gardens, was closed on Sunday for the private event, according to the venue’s calendar.
The violent incident adds to the historic and glamorous history of the mansion.
The Glen Cove mansion was built in 1910 by architect Charles Adams Platt. The 55-acre estate was home to corporate attorneys John Teele Pratt and Ruth Baker Pratt, who became the first woman elected to the New York Congress before it became a conference center hotel on 1967.
Unidentified victims were shot after 5 p.m. after a riot broke out among attendees. James Staubitser
The building and its grounds were also the partial set of two popular films in the 1950s: Sabrina starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, and Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest starring Cary Grant.
The management of the mansion did not immediately return a request for comment.