Boyfriend of Woman Fatally Shot When They Turned Into the Wrong Driveway Testifies in Murder Trial

Published on January 19, 2024

FORT EDWARD, N.Y.—The boyfriend of a 20-year-old woman fatally shot in the neck when they pulled into the wrong driveway last year described to a jury Thursday hearing a shot pierce the car and then seeing his girlfriend slumped over in the passenger seat. “Frantic in the car … people were screaming,” Blake Walsh said, describing the moments leading up to the death of Kaylin Gillis. Walsh testified in the second-degree murder trial of Kevin Monahan, 66, who is charged with fatally shooting Gillis when the couple and a group of friends drove into the wrong driveway near the Vermont border on a Saturday night last April....

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