Man Sentenced to 25 Years to Life for Fatally Shooting a Woman After Her Friends into the Wrong Driveway in New York!
CNS News– A Guy from New York was given 25 years to life in prison Friday for killing a 20-year-old woman after she and some other teens accidentally pulled into his driveway. Kevin Monahan was found guilty in January of second-degree murder, reckless endangerment, and tampering in the death of Kaylin Gillis on April 15.
He shot and killed Gillis after the car she was in, along with another car and a motorcycle, pulled into his driveway in rural Hebron, about 40 miles north of Albany, while they were looking for a party. The group got lost and ended up in a part of New York where cell service was bad.
Monahan said in court that the cars and motorbike pulling into his driveway made him feel threatened and that he thought he was being blocked in. He said he turned on his floodlights, got his 20-gauge shotgun, and fired a shot to scare them away. Monahan said that the second shot he fired, the one that killed Gillis, was an accident because he tripped over nails sticking out of his deck.
BREAKING: A New York man convicted of killing a 20-year-old woman after she and her friends mistakenly pulled into his driveway is sentenced to 25 years to life.
He is also sentenced to a smaller consecutive sentence for tampering with evidence. https://t.co/uYKLVdzNKP
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Monahan said in court that he felt “like my soul is dead.” He also got a shorter term for tampering with evidence that ran consecutively. A few days after the killing, Gillis’ boyfriend Blake Walsh told NBC News that the group knew they were at the wrong house and were leaving when shots were fired.
Walsh was in a Ford Explorer and said, “That’s when the fatal shot came through.” I tried to step on the gas. Police say Gillis was declared dead a few miles away after the group called 911. Walsh said she got hit in the neck. He said that the group had to drive 5 miles because there was no cell service.