Walsh told NBC the drive to find cell service did not feel like a 5-mile drive. “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. First responders began administering CPR but Gillis was pronounced dead at the scene, Murphy said. They were found around 5 miles away from the home in the nearby town of Salem.
Monahan to feel threatened,” Murphy said.Īfter 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. “There was clearly no threat from anyone in the vehicle. No one is believed to have exited the car, and there was no interaction between Monahan and anyone in the vehicle before shots were fired, Murphy said. In the New York shooting, both Monahan and Gillis are White. Lester, who told police he thought the teen was trying to break in, faces two felony charges in a case that touches on so-called “stand your ground” laws, the proliferation of firearms and racial bias. In that case, Andrew Lester, 84, opened fire on 16-year-old Ralph Yarl as the teen stood at Lester’s front door before any words had been exchanged, according to a probable cause document obtained by CNN. White homeowner accused of shooting Black teen who went to the wrong house in Kansas City will face 2 felony charges, officials announce
Ralph Paul Yarl is seen in a photo shared by family in a GoFundMe page. The shooting happened just days after a Black teenager in Kansas City was shot twice by a White homeowner after going to the wrong address to pick up his siblings. “I need to see who took my girlfriend away from me. A bail hearing is pending for Tuesday or Wednesday, the district attorney and defense attorney both said. He was arraigned Sunday on the murder charge, his attorney told CNN. Monahan has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with her death, Murphy said. Monahan came out and fired two shots,” the sheriff said. They drove up this driveway for a very short time, realized their mistake and were leaving, when Mr. The sheriff said the shooting happened in “a very rural area with dirt roads” and poor cell service. “My friend said, ‘They’re shooting - go!’ I tried to step on the gas as fast as I could, and that’s when the fatal shot (that struck Gillis) came through,” Walsh told NBC. As soon as we figured out that we were at the wrong location, we started to leave, and that’s when everything happened.” “We didn’t have any cell service to figure it out. “We thought we were at the right address,” Walsh told NBC. Four friends were traveling in another vehicle and also went up the wrong driveway. He told NBC Tuesday in a phone interview that he, his late girlfriend, and two friends were looking for a party. The woman, identified as Kaylin Gillis, was a passenger in a vehicle when a man, 65-year-old Kevin Monahan, fired two shots from his front porch, Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said in a news conference Monday.īlake Walsh, Gillis’ boyfriend, said he was driving the car the night they drove up the wrong driveway. A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities said.
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