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A woman was fatally致命地 shot by a N.Y. homeowner after she went up the wrong driveway私人车道
【 原 文 】
A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed by a homeowner in upstate北部的；偏僻的 New York on Saturday after the car she was in accidentally意外地 went to the wrong address, local authorities当局
said on Monday.


Kaylin Gillis and three of her friends were trying to find another friend's house in
rural乡村的
Hebron, N.Y., when they mistakenly
pulled up停车
to the house owned by Kevin Monahan, according to
Sheriff治安官
Jeffrey J. Murphy.


They quickly realized their mistake and were turning the car around when Monahan stepped onto his
porch门廊
and fired two shots, one of which struck Gillis.


Short on欠缺 cellphone signal, her friends drove 5 miles to the town of Salem to call 911. Emergency responders急救人员 performed CPR on Gillis but she was pronounced dead on the scene当场
.


Monahan has
been charged with murder被控谋杀 in the second degree and remains in custody仍在拘留中 at Warren County Jail, the sheriff said. It's unclear whether he's retained an attorney付定金聘定律师
.


He was initially
uncooperative不配合的
with investigators, refusing for several hours to exit his
residence住所
or answer questions, the sheriff said.


Murphy summed the case as a "very sad" incident involving an "innocent young woman."


"There was clearly no threat from anyone in the
vehicle
车辆. There was no reason for Monahan to feel threatened," he said.


He added that he wasn't aware of any interaction between the
passengers乘客
and Monahan. No one exited the vehicle, which was only in the driveway "for a very short time," he said.


It's also not uncommon for drivers to turn onto the wrong property in the area. Hebron, a hilly farming region
tucked夹在
in the shadow of the Adirondack Mountains,
registered显示、有
a population of 1,786 in the 2020
census人口普查
.


"It's a very rural area. There's dirt roads. There's not a lot of cell service or any type of internet," the sheriff said.


However, Monahan's lawyer, Kurt Mausert, said the sheriff's account of what happened in the driveway and his
characterization描述
of his client as uncooperative are incorrect. His client had been afraid when he
pulled the trigger扣动扳机
, Mausert told WAMC/Northeast Public Radio.


"There were errors, there were
misunderstandings误解
that
culminated以…结束
in a tragedy. But the fact that we have a
victim受害者
in a tragedy does not mean there's a
villain坏人
. Villain, to me, requires bad
intent意图
and my client, I don't believe – the facts will show – that he had bad intent," he said.
Kaylin Gillis had lived in a nearby town


Gillis was from Schuylerville, N.Y., roughly 18 miles away from where she died. She had planned to attend college in Florida, with hopes of becoming a
marine biologist海洋生物学家
, according to a statement from Gillis' family shared with WAMC.


The mayor of Schuylerville, Dan Carpenter, told WAMC the incident made him think of his teen daughter,
a newly minted driver新晋司机
.


"I mean, you just make a wrong turn, you turn around someone's driveway, and you get shot. I mean, who could imagine that?" he said.


The shooting came just a few days after a 16-year-old was shot through a glass door by an 84-year-old man in Kansas City. The teenager, Ralph Yarl, had been trying to
pick up (开车) 接
his brothers when he mistakenly
approached驶近
the wrong house.

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