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Kevin Monahan, 65, shot 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis after a car she was riding in with friends made a wrong turn on his property

A man was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday for fatally shooting a young woman when the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove up his rural driveway in upstate New York.

A jury found Kevin Monahan, 66, guilty of second-degree murder for shooting 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis on a Saturday night last April after she and her friends pulled into his long, curving driveway near the Vermont border while they were trying to find another house.

The group’s caravan of two cars and a motorcycle began leaving once they realized their mistake. Authorities said Monahan came out to his porch and fired twice from his shotgun, with the second shot hitting Gillis in the neck as she sat in the front passenger seat of an SUV driven by her boyfriend.

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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 116 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm an instacart driver and at least a few times a week I get the wrong driveway but then figure it out very quickly. This shit goes through my mind every single time.

That's just the country I live in. I pulled into the wrong driveway and I instantly wonder idly if this is going to lead to my fucking death.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Okay, sure, but have you ever even considered uparmoring your car and mounting an automatic weapon to it? It’s like people never even played Car Wars. With some armor and a SAW they could have practiced their rights, and with a .50 they probably could have cut his house in half.

I mean, gas costs will go up with the additional weight and you need additional crew members to serve the weapons, but that’s the price of freedom.

Alternatively, you could try delivering the groceries by trebuchet from the back of a flatbed truck, but the automatic weapon thing is less likely to result in them cancelling the tip.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bro, I hate to go all American but if i could drive some twisted metal shit I would in a fucking hearbeat. And I probably wouldn't kill that many people. Most would deserve it. Pinky promise.

[–] eltimablo@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Alternatively, you could try delivering the groceries by trebuchet from the back of a flatbed truck

Ok now I know you're being facetious, because a ballista would do that job so much better.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] not_again@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Steve Jackson games FTW. That mofo even predicted 9/11.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

ok but where? I don't think about this where I used to live in the US, but last summer we were in rural north carolina and I did a three point turn off someones driveway and I was not relaxed

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Missouri and Kansas. I live near the boarder and bounce between states all day.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird 6 points 2 years ago

It's going to be an issue anywhere rural.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The point is that it’s scary to be a delivery driver. It’s more dangerous than being a cop.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I delivered pizzas for 3 different pizzarias and flowers also.. I know the statistics show more delivery drivers run into trouble than cops get shot, but I think thats down to numbers- when I was slinging pies there were easily 5 pizza places with 5-6 drivers each on trip after trip all day 7 days a week and I would guess 10 cops on duty mostly sitting on their ass in a cop car busting white high school kids for weed at bullshit traffic stops.. anyway yeah I hear you, but I think this is VERY tightly linked with the area you deliver in. my white bread ass area never not once made me feel the sliiiightest bit afraid

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

This could be a commercial for the cyber truck, the only bulletproof instacart approved delivery vehicle.