FORT EDWARD — Kaylin A. Gillis, the 20-year-old woman fatally shot Saturday evening after the car she was riding in with friends mistakenly turned into the wrong driveway in a rural Washington County town, died after she was struck by a slug fired from the homeowner’s 12-gauge shotgun, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Kevin D. Monahan, 65, is accused of firing two rounds at the vehicle that had pulled into his residential driveway in Hebron when the young group of friends became lost as they searched for another person’s residence, police said.
The lead slug that allegedly killed Gillis is designed to kill large game and is roughly three times bigger than a round fired by a handgun. Monahan likely would not need a permit to possess that firearm, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
He was arrested over the weekend and is scheduled to appear in Washington County Court at 1 p.m. on Wednesday for a bail hearing with his attorney, Kurt G. Mausert. Monahan has been charged with second-degree murder. Mausert could not be reached for comment.
Sheriff officials on Monday said Monahan emerged from his home shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday evening and fired twice at the car that Gillis and three friends were sitting in. Police have declined to confirm the type of firearm used in the incident.
Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said Gillis and the others were looking for a friend’s house on Patterson Hill Road, about 19 miles northeast of Gillis’ residence in Schuylerville, when they drove up the long, unpaved driveway of the residence owned by Monahan and his wife, 69-year-old Polly Jinx Monahan, who is a counselor for the state Department of Labor. The couple have lived at the residence, which was built on 40 acres, for about 20 years, according to property records.
The unpaved private driveway is not…
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