Last month, the father of an upstate New York woman who was shot and killed after turning in the wrong driveway called on the homeowner who killed his daughter to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
“For this man to sit on his porch and fire at a car with no threat is just . . . (it) angers me so badly, and I just hope to God that he dies in jail. Kaylin deserves justice,” Andy Gillis told The Associated Press of his daughter, 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis, whom he described as a “smart, kind, loving” person.
This week, the grieving father’s cry for accountability turned to action: The man accused of gunning down his daughter, 65-year-old Kevin Monahan, was indicted on charges of second-degree murder, reckless endangerment and tampering with physical evidence, CNN reports.
Monahan, who was arraigned Wednesday, has pleaded not guilty.
Authorities allege that on April 15, Gillis was in a vehicle with friends when they accidentally turned in the wrong driveway while trying to get to a friend’s house in Washington County, about 55 miles north of Albany.
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The woman’s boyfriend, Blake Walsh, who was driving the vehicle, said as soon as he realized he was at the wrong house, he began turning around, but it was too late.
“We thought we were at the right address,” Walsh said in an interview with NBC. “We didn’t have any cell service to figure it out. As soon as we figured out that we were at the wrong location, we started to leave, and that’s when everything happened.”
Prosecutors allege that Monahan fired a 20-gauge shotgun twice at Walsh’s Ford Explorer. Gillis was struck in the neck and died shortly after.
The judge presiding over the case has denied Monahan bail in three times, according to the Times Union newspaper. Prosecutors have argued that he is a flight risk.
But Kurt Mausert, Monahan’s lawyer, has said his client should be freed from jail as the case proceeds because he has never been arrested or convicted of a crime in the state of New York and has lived in the community for more than three decades.
Mausert has also contested some of the allegations against Monahan and alleged that drivers of multiple vehicles were revving their engines while speeding up the driveway.
Monahan is scheduled to make another court appearance on July 28.
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