Man on Trial for Killing Young Woman Whose Friends Pulled Into Wrong Driveway Says ‘My Soul Is Dead’

Defendant Kevin Monahan, left, listens to opening statements in his murder trial, Jan. 11, 2024, at the Washington County Courthouse in Fort Edward, N.Y. Blake Walsh, the boyfriend of a 20-year-old woman fatally shot in the neck when they pulled into the wrong driveway last year, testified Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in the second-degree murder trial of Monahan, 66, who is charged with fatally shooting Kaylin Gillis when the friends she was with turned into the wrong driveway near the Vermont border on a Saturday night last April. Will Waldron/The Albany Times Union via AP, Pool, File

FORT EDWARD, N.Y.—A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman after the car she was riding in mistakenly drove up his backcountry driveway in upstate New York testified at his trial Friday that he believed he was under siege that night and now feels “like my soul is dead.”

But he maintained the fatal shot went off accidentally.