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Who was Kaylin Gillis? New York woman shot dead by homeowner for driving to wrong address

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James Bradley

Published Dec 31, 2025

Kaylin Gillis was a 20-year-elderly person from Schuylerville, NY
She was shot by Kevin Monahan when she and a gathering of companions wound up before his home in a far off area of upstate New York
At the point when people on call showed up, Gillis had proactively been announced dead

Kaylin Gillis was shot by Kevin Monahan when she and a gathering of companions wound up before his home in a far off area of upstate New York. The driver of the vehicle she was riding in supposedly committed an error and entered the wrong carport, which is the point at which the entire episode occurred.

Who was Kaylin Gillis? Kaylin Gillis was a 20-year-elderly person from Schuylerville, New York, around 20 miles from where the shooting occurred. She went to some unacceptable location while attempting to track down a companion’s home in upstate New York and was lethally shot by the mortgage holder.

As per Washington Province Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy, Kaylin Gillis was going in the vehicle with three others on Saturday night when they coincidentally transformed into some unacceptable property on Paterson Slope Street in Hebron.

“While they were leaving the home after they verified that they were at some unacceptable house, the subject emerged on his yard for reasons unknown and discharged two shots, one of which struck the vehicle that Kaylin was in,” Murphy said. Gillis was struck by one of the slugs.

As far as I can tell, Congresswoman @EliseStefanik Elise Stefanik has made no statement about the killing of Kaylin Gillis, who lives in and was senselessly murdered in her district this weekend.

— Chris Swartout (@chrisswartout) April 17, 2023

Around 10 p.m., when shots were discharged, Gillis and the companions escaped to contact for help with a close by town since there was no strong portable gathering nearby, as indicated by Murphy. At the point when specialists on call showed up at the vehicle, Gillis had previously been pronounced dead.

Murphy guarantees that there was no connection between the companions in the vehicle and the mortgage holder. The companions’ gathering never escaped the vehicle by the same token.

Kevin Monahan, 65, was kept in a close by prison and was booked to go under the watchful eye of a region court judge “in no time,” as per Sheriff Murphy. Monahan’s lawyer, Kurt Mausert, said that his client had no earlier convictions, possessed a contracting business, and had lived in Washington Region for a long time.

“My starter perspective on this case is that it was a progression of blunders which brought about a misfortune,” Mausert said. “It is too early to express more than that.”