The investigation of the shooting of a 20-year-old woman in New York by a man who accidentally turned into a driveway and walked up its front porch
A 20-year-old woman was killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway as they were looking for a friend in upstate New York.
Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said in a press conference on Monday that a young woman was hit by gunfire when a man fired two shots from his front porch.
Monahan has been charged with murder in the second degree and remains in custody at Warren County Jail, the sheriff said. It’s not clear if he’s retained an attorney.
It is a very rural area with dirt roads. It is easy to get lost. They drove up this driveway for a very short time, realized their mistake and were leaving, when Mr. Monahan came out and fired two shots,” Murphy said, adding that the area has poor cell phone service.
After the shots were fired, Gillis and the rest of the group drove away from the house in the town of Hebron looking for cell phone service, and then called 911.
They were found around 5 miles away from the home in the nearby town of Salem. First responders were first on the scene and began giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but it was too little, too late.
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Police officers later responded to the home from which shots were fired and found Monahan to be uncooperative, Murphy said, adding he “refused to exit his residence to speak with police.”
The Washington County Sheriff’s office said that he was arrested with the aid of the New York State Police Special Operations Response Team.
“This is a very sad case of some young adults that were looking for a friend’s house and ended up at this man’s house who decided to come out with a firearm and discharge it,” the sheriff said.
Over $40,000 has been raised for Gillis’ family in a GoFundMe raising money for the “Gillis family for use toward Kaylin’s funeral expenses and any immediate financial needs,” according to the page.
Kaylin Gillis and three of her friends were trying to find another friend’s house in rural Hebron, New York when they mistakenly pulled up to the house owned by Kevin Monahan, according to Sheriff Jeffrey J. Murphy.
They realized their mistake and turned the car around, as they saw that the one shot that hit Gillis was fired by Monahan.
He added that he wasn’t aware of any interaction between the passengers and Monahan. He said that no one left the vehicle for a very short time.
There is a chance that drivers will turn onto the wrong property. Hebron, a hilly farming region tucked in the shadow of the Adirondack Mountains, registered a population of 1,786 in the 2020 census.
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