Friends of Kaylin Gillis, woman shot after turning into wrong driveway, testify in murder trial: "People were screaming"
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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 when Kaylin Gillis was shot.
Walsh and a group of his friends testified in the second-degree murder trial of Kevin Monahan, 66, who is charged with fatally shooting Gillis. Many fought back tears as they spoke, according to CBS affiliate WRGB. On a Saturday night last April, the couple and their group of friends drove into the wrong driveway in Hebron, some 40 miles north of Albany, near the Vermont border.
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