Man Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of 20-Year-Old Woman Who Pulled Into Wrong Driveway

Per Murphy, the scene where officials first arrived and found the victim with her three friends was not the site of the shooting. Subsequent calls, he said, revealed the original location of the shooting to be roughly five miles away.

“While they were leaving the residence once they determined they were at the wrong house, the subject came out on his porch for whatever reason and fired two shots, one of which struck the vehicle that Kaylin was in,” Murphy told reporters on Monday. “They left that area in the vehicle, went to the Cemetery Road location—again, with poor cell phone reception. They were able to make contact with our 911 center and that’s how the [initial] call came in.”

Monahan was booked into the Warren County Jail and is expected to make his first court appearance soon. According to law enforcement, the suspect “was not cooperative,” spurring a back-and-forth that lasted “more than an hour” before he was ultimately taken into custody.

Describing this as a “very sad case,” Murphy added that he knew the victims family personally.

“She was a young girl that was taken way too young,” he said.

News of the New York shooting follows a case in Kansas City, Missouri in which 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot and injured after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell when trying to pick up his younger siblings. The suspected shooter in that case, Andrew Lester, was announced late Monday to be facing charges including assault and armed criminal action.