Police have charged an upstate New York man for allegedly shooting and killing a 20-year-old woman after the car she was riding in drove up his driveway by accident.
According to TheBlaze, Kaylin Gillis was riding in a car with three friends late Saturday night when their vehicle turned into the driveway belonging to 65-year-old Kevin Monahan. They were searching for a friend’s house nearby.
But the night took a tragic turn when, without apparent provocation, Monahan fired two gunshots from his porch. One of those shots hit the car, killing Gillis.
“It’s a very rural area with dirt roads. It’s easy to get lost,” explained Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy at a press conference on Monday. “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.” According to Murphy, the occupants of the car and Monahan never interacted.
“There was clearly no threat from anyone in the vehicle. There was no reason for Mr. Monahan to feel threatened,” Murphy said. “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.”
After the shooting, police attempted to arrest Monahan, but he was “uncooperative and refused to exit his residence to speak with police,” police said in a press release. He was taken into custody “several hours” later. Police charged Monahan with second-degree murder.
