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A New York man accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old woman in a car that made a wrong turn up his driveway had a "short fuse" and hated trespassers, according to a new report.
A car carrying Kaylin Gillis and three friends turned into the wrong driveway off Patterson Hill Road in Hebron, about 55 miles north of Albany, between 9 and 10 p.m. on Saturday, prosecutors say.
The 65-year-old homeowner, Kevin Monahan, allegedly walked out with a gun and opened fire.
At least one shot struck Gillis, who turned 20 in February.
"It’s shocking, but I’m not surprised," Monahan’s next-door neighbor, Adam Matthews, told the New York Post. "He had a short fuse. There was never any doubt he had a short fuse."
He called his neighbor a "narcissist" and said he often fumed over trespassers on his rural driveway.
"It was always, ‘People just drive up my driveway, and they think it’s a road,’" he told the paper. "He was very adamant people didn’t come up, and for a long time he kept the bottom of his driveway gated because so many people did mistake it for a roadway because it’s so wide at the bottom."
Monahan faces a charge of second-degree murder for Gillis' death.