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New York official charged in shooting of DoorDash delivery driver who was lost

John J Reilly, a highway superintendent, allegedly fired shots at a driver who stopped to ask for directions

The Guardian - US

New York man given 25 years for killing student mistakenly on his property

Kevin Monahan fired a gun at a group of cars that had pulled into his driveway to turn around, killing Kaylin Gillis

The Guardian - US

Man Sentenced To 25 Years For Fatal Shooting

Man sentenced to prison for fatally shooting woman who mistakenly drove into his rural driveway. Tragic incident underscores consequences of reckless behav...

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Kaylin Gillis: New York man murdered young woman who took wrong turn up his driveway

Kaylin Gillis, 20, was shot dead after she and her friends pulled into a rural driveway while trying to find another house

Evening Standard

Murder trial begins months after young woman driven into wrong driveway shot in upstate New York

An attorney for an upstate New York man accused of fatally shooting a 20-year-old woman who was with a group of friends who accidentally turned into his backcountry driveway called it a “terrible accident” involving a defective gun as arguments in his murder trial began

The Independent UK

Louisiana teenager shot by neighbor as she played hide-and-seek

The latest shooting of an innocent victim spotlights ‘stand your ground’ laws, which some Republicans are trying to strengthen

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A meteorologist's Facebook comments about guns and kids alarm his audience

The founder of iWeatherNet, a Facebook page and website that posts updates about Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta-area weather, commented about being armed and impatient when a child rang his doorbell.

WEKU

'Stand Your Ground' Laws Are Back in the News, but It's Not Clear Why

The duty to retreat from public confrontations has nothing to do with the cases cited in recent stories about seemingly unjustified shootings.

Reason

Mike Pence makes excuses for shootings of Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis

The former vice president declined to directly condemn a spate of recent gun attacks on innocent bystanders

The Independent UK

Editorial: Fistfights aren't gunfights. Knives don't go off accidentally. Yes, guns kill

There’s an old cliché in America’s gun debate that is so anathema to common sense — Guns don’t kill, people kill — that politically serious defenders of gun culture seldom even invoke it anymore. Like “thoughts and prayers,” it has become a dark and self-defeating punchline. Yet former President Donald…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Suspect in shooting of six-year-old over stray basketball arrested in Florida

Robert Singletary will not resist being transferred back to home state of North Carolina to face four attempted murder charges

The Guardian - US

If You Want Fewer Shootings, Ask Politicians To Back Off

It took years to break our society; we’ll be a long time making repairs.

Reason

Man allegedly shoots girl, six, and her parents after ball rolls into his backyard

William White and his daughter Kinsley were seriously hurt during shooting in North Carolina while suspect remains at large

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Editorial: Never-ending line of fire: Wrong-address shootings expose a broken society

Everyone has made the same error at some point: looking for an address and accidentally ending up at the wrong door. The moment of awkwardness is usually forgotten quickly. For 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis, it was her last memory before being gunned down by 65-year-old Kevin Monahan after she and some…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Helen Ubiñas: In America, our biggest fear is each other

We’ve spent much of the last few years dreading the possibility of coming into close physical contact with one another. And then, preparing ourselves for the moment when we might — with social distancing, masks, vaccines — in order to protect ourselves from harm.

Chicago Sun-Times

Woman who was shot after wrong turn in New York State had hopes, dreams, her father says

Andrew Gillis described his daughter, Kaylin, as an honor student who dreamed of becoming a marine biologist or veterinarian. Kaylin, 20, was shot to death in rural New York.

Daily Mirror

Man describes moment girlfriend killed by 'narcissist' after pulling into wrong driveway

Kaylin Gillis, 20, was killed after the car she was travelling in with her boyfriend and friends was shot at, having turned the wrong way into Kevin Monahan's driveway

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The Independent UK

Common mistakes, uncommon reactions in 3 separate shootings

In the span of six days, four young people across the U.S. have been shot — one fatally — for making one of the most ordinary mistakes in everyday life: showing up at the wrong place

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Boyfriend of Kaylin Gillis recounts moment homeowner killed her with shotgun as they tried to leave wrong driveway

‘I didn’t want to be with anybody else, and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her,’ Blake Walsh says

The Independent UK

Kaylin Gillis: What we know about shooting death of New York woman after she got the wrong driveway

Kaylin Gillis was going to spend Saturday night with friends. Instead she was shot and killed all for going to the wrong address, reports Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK

Kaylin Gillis shooting suspect has shown ‘no remorse’ says New York sheriff

Kevin Monahan charged with murdering 20-year-old woman in rural upstate New York

The Independent UK

Neighbor: Man in wrong-turn shooting disliked trespassers

When Kaylin Gillis and her friends took a wrong turn into an upstate New York driveway last weekend, they wound up on the property of a man bitter about people driving onto his land by mistake

WEKU

2 shootings at mistaken addresses have renewed the focus on 'stand your ground' laws

Stand your ground laws have proliferated in the years since the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black teenager killed in 2012. Research shows the laws have led to an increase in firearm homicides.

Salon

Woman killed in wrong driveway shooting

"They drove up this driveway for a very short time, realized their mistake and were leaving," sheriff says

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