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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 mistakenly turned into his backcountry driveway called it a “terrible accident” involving a defective gun as arguments in his murder trial began Thursday.

A man from upstate New York was found guilty on Tuesday of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a young woman who was riding in a car that had mistakenly driven up his driveway.

Convicted murderer Kevin Monahan was sentenced to 25 years-to-life in Washington County Court Friday March 1. He also will serve a concurrent sentence of two-and-a-third to seven years for reckless endangerment, and finally, a consecutive sentence, meaning it is added to the murder sentence, of one-and-a-third to four years for tampering with evidence, bringing the total to 26 and-one-third years to life.

The Manhattan prosecutor exchanged arguments
with Penny’s defense attorney Thomas Kenniff as trial over Neely’s death got under way this past Friday, Nov. 1.

Witnesses from the subway train said they feared Jordan Neely but also described the horror of watching him die in a chokehold.

Daniel Penny, a former Marine who choked a fellow subway rider on an uptown F train last year, was acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide on Monday, ending a case that had come to exemplify New York City’s post-pandemic struggles.