2023-04-20 19:50:55
A man charged with killing a 20-year-old woman because she entered the wrong house last weekend appeared before a judge on Thursday followingnoon for his bail hearing.
More charges are possible for Kevin Monahan in this fatal shooting in Washington County, upstate New York.
District Attorney Christian P. Morris swears justice will be served for Kaylin Gillis as her father spoke to reporters.
“Kaylin’s two little sisters, Chloe and Maddie, are going to have to grow up without their older sister. My wife Angel will have to spend the rest of her life without her daughter,” laments Andrew Gillis.
Overwhelmed with emotion, the grieving father said his last words to his daughter were ‘I love you’.
“She was killed. She is dead. I don’t think there is any greater harm than that.”
Kevin Monahan, 65, faces a charge of second degree murder.
Authorities say Gillis was with her boyfriend, Blake Walsh, and two others on a rural New York road looking for a friend’s house.
They have lost their cell phone service signal. Without GPS, they pulled into Monahan’s driveway.
According to the police, the accused fired two shots as the car turned around. Kaylin was fatally injured.
Walsh told the NBC network, “My friend said ‘he’s shooting, let’s get out of here!’. I want to believe that [sa mort] was instantaneous. I hope it was. I pray that is the case.”
The victim’s father is overwhelmed by such an act of violence.
“For this man, sitting on his balcony, to shoot a car in the face of no threat, it just… makes me so angry! I just hope he dies in prison.”
In court, prosecutors said Monahan – a longtime Washington County resident – had a “hot-tempered” reputation and was likely to attract conflict.
Monahan’s attorney told CNN that his client has no criminal history and that he fired because he believed the cars were revving their engines to threaten him.
“He is a normal human being who has been involved in a series of tragic events. Of course, it feels awful that a young girl’s life was lost.”
Gillis was to move to Florida with his family at the end of the year. She loved animals and was considering studies in marine biology.
“She was so smart, she was so smart, kind, loving, she had so many friends,” her father pointed out.
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