Police announced on the 17th (local time) that a 20-year-old woman who drove to the wrong address in an upscale residential area in New York State entered the driveway and was shot and killed by the landlord.
Kayleen Gillis, 20, was looking for a house on the night of Saturday, the 15th, when she drove three other friends to the rural suburb of Hebron, when she turned the car the wrong way and entered the road in front of the house in question.
As they tried to turn the car around, the homeowner, Kevin Monaghan, 65, fired two shots from his front porch, one of which hit Gillis, Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said.
The group drove to Sailor Village, northeast of Albany, on the Vermont border, and called 911, Sheriff Murphy said. This is because the area where the shooting took place had limited mobile phone service.
The 911 ambulance soon came to the car and tried emergency measures such as CPR, but Gillis’ life could not be saved.
When the police went to the house to investigate the shooting, the owner, Monahan, refused to come out. Police were able to arrest him after more than an hour of convincing him on a 911 dispatch call, and he is now being held in Warren County Jail on charges of second-degree murder, the sheriff said.
According to Albany’s Union Times newspaper, Gillis, who lived in Schuylerville, was “an innocent young woman who was driving with friends to visit another friend’s house,” police said. Police said her landlord at the time felt threatened or had no reason to do so.
The shooting occurred just three days after Ralph Yal, a 16-year-old black boy, was shot and killed by his owner in his 80s after ringing the doorbell after going to pick up his brothers on April 13 in Kansas City, Missouri.
In this New York case, race was not the cause of the murder, as both the female victim and the landlord were white.
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Source: Donga
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