A New York woman on her way to a friend's house was shot and killed by a homeowner when the driver of the vehicle she was riding in pulled up to the wrong address, according to authorities.

Kaylin Gillis, 20, of Schuylerville, was in a car with three other people looking for a friend's house in the town of Hebron on Saturday at around 10 p.m. when they mistakenly drove into the driveway of the home of Kevin Monahan, 65, Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphey said at a news conference on Monday.

As the driver attempted to turn the car around, authorities said Monahan came out and fired at least two shots, one of which struck Gillis.

The driver then drove to the neighboring town of Salem, where the group called 911. Emergency crews rushed to the area and performed CPR on Gillis. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

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When deputies arrived at Monahan's property to investigate, he would not cooperate and refused to exit his house. Officials talked to him through a 911 dispatcher and in person for about an hour before he was taken into custody. 

Monahan was arrested on a second-degree murder charge and was booked into the Warren County Jail.

"This is a very sad case of some young adults who were looking for a friend’s house and ended up at this man’s house who decided to come out with a firearm and discharge it," Murphy said.

The group in the car never left the vehicle and did not interact with Monahan while in his driveway, the sheriff said.

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Murphy noted that the car was only in the driveway for a short time, although it is unclear exactly how long. He said the area is very rural with many dirt roads and that it is easy to get lost.

"There’s clearly no threat from anyone in the vehicle," Murphy said. "There’s no reason for Mr. Monahan to feel threatened."

Murphy said he personally knew the victim's family. "I know for a fact that she comes from a good family, a very good family. And I know them personally, and she was a young girl that was taken way too young."

A GoFundMe page was posted to support funeral costs. The fundraiser has raised more than $38,000 as of Tuesday morning.

EXCLUSIVE: A watchdog group filed two federal lawsuits against the Biden administration Monday, alleging it has violated federal law by not sharing communications involving Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's daughter. 

Protect the Public's Trust (PPT), a non-profit watchdog organization, asked a federal court in the lawsuits — one filed against the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the other filed against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) — to compel the two agencies to comply with its information requests. On Jan. 2, PPT filed information requests with the DOI and BLM, asking for communications with Haaland's daughter Somah and top agency officials. 

The information requests, filed under the Freedom of Information Act which requires the federal government to publicly share certain documents, communications and information with the public, came after a Fox News Digital report revealed Somah Haaland had lobbied federal lawmakers on hot-button oil and gas leasing issues over which her mother has oversight.

"Her daughter’s activism and lobbying efforts certainly have the potential to create the perception in the minds of the public that Secretary Haaland could be conflicted on issues under her authority," PPT Director Michael Chamberlain told Fox News Digital. "Further complicating matters is the participation of an organization that claims Somah Haaland among its leadership in the protest that turned into a riot at the Interior headquarters." 

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"Each of these items alone would point to the need for DOI to provide more transparency into any relationships and interactions between Somah Haaland and senior Department officials," Chamberlain added. "Taken together, this need is magnified."

In December, Fox News Digital reported that Somah Haaland, who is a media organizer for the Pueblo Action Alliance (PAA), a New Mexico-based cultural and environmental group, traveled to Washington, D.C., with a group of fellow climate activists to ask lawmakers and federal officials to block fossil fuel drilling near the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.

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In addition to lobbying lawmakers, the activists screened a film narrated by Somah Haaland that "showcases the threats" posed by oil and gas leasing in the region. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., attended the screening along with "agency officials."

PPT's information request in early January requested all communications about the film between Somah Haaland and seven DOI officials including her mother and two BLM officials including the agency's director Tracy Stone-Manning. In the group's lawsuit Monday, it said both the DOI and BLM have still not produced the requested information and likely don't intend to meet their statutory FOIA obligations.

"The Biden Administration promised a return to normalcy but the ties of Interior leaders to activist organizations that sometimes employ controversial tactics represents anything but a return to normalcy," Chamberlain said.

In 2021, the PAA was involved in a violent protest in which climate activists stormed and attempted to breach the DOI's headquarters in Washington, D.C. And PAA Executive Director Julia Bernal boasted in an interview that same year that she met personally with Secretary Haaland, who she referenced as "Auntie Deb," to speak about water policy issues and the group's opposition to oil and gas leasing.

Following the recent revelations about Somah Haaland's activism, the Western Energy Alliance, a large Denver-based energy industry group, asked House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., in March to open an investigation into the interior secretary's apparent ethics violations. A spokesperson for Westerman said the congressman received the request and was reviewing potential next steps.

Secretary Haaland, meanwhile, is slated to testify before the House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday.

The DOI declined to comment on PPT's lawsuits.