A 20-year-old woman was shot dead after she and her friends accidentally pulled into the wrong driveway in an Upstate New York home while they were looking for their friend’s house. The homeowner, a 65-year-old man, has been charged with murder.
The incident took place Saturday night in Hebron, a small town northeast of Albany. Kaylin Gillis and three others were driving around the rural area with little to no cell service when they mistakenly drove into the driveway of a residence belonging to Kevin Monahan, Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey J. Murphy said at aThe group “realized their mistake” quickly and began to back out of the driveway, Murphy said. But Monahan came out onto his porch and fired two shots — one of which hit Gillis.
Following the shooting, Gillis’s friends drove about five miles south to the town of Salem, where they were able to call 911. Emergency responders attempted to save Gillis, but she was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.was shot and injured in Kansas City, Mo., when he went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings. Andrew D. Lester, an 84-year-old White man, was charged with felony assault and armed criminal action.
Monahan is now being held at the Warren County jail while he awaits his court appearance “in the near future,” Murphy said.Monahan owns a contracting business and has lived in Washington County for more than 30 years, his lawyer, Kurt Mausert, said in an email. He added that Monahan had no previous penal law convictions.
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