>> 279 days after Caitlyn Gillis was killed by a slug
from Kevin Monahan shotgun. Monahan is offering up a much
different take on what happened that night at his home in
Hebrew today. The 66 year-old Monahan was called as the one
and only defense witness at his murder trial under direct
examination. He greeted the jury. Hello, everybody. You see
my face. Finally without the mask, Monahan has been wearing
a mask because of a bout with flu-like symptoms. His lead
attorney Art Frost, let him through a discussion about the
events of the night of April 15th. I see motorcycle come
flying up on the outside edge of our driveway. He came all
the way up. He was very aggressive on ahead, said
several times that he thought they were being invaded.
I decide to go downstairs, turn all flood lights on thinking
they think it's a summer home, not occupied. Frost asked him
what he was feeling when the motorcyclist Rory Bain drove
close to his home while the others were waiting farther
down his driveway and nervous real nervous because cars have
our driveway blocked and he's waving them up into our
intimate area. I grab my 20 gauge shotgun, grab some
ammunition and loaded one point Monahan starts crying and says
if anything is going to happen, I want to be the target.
Frost asks instead of who instead of my wife I might have
to draw them away.
He says I showed them the gun show. It wasn't a toy wasn't a
broom. I decided to fire a warning shot
when I did the warning shot. He said I couldn't believe they
didn't do anything. It's like they sent the bike up as a
scout in the cars would have blocked me from leaving.
But he testified that he never meant to fire the second shot.
He said he was wearing be choosing tripped over some
nails. Sticking out of his DEC. Tripped over nails, got
involved with the post and the gun went off. Frost asks,
pull that trigger. Monahan says I did not. I look for any
indication there was a problem with that vehicle both left.
Normally I couldn't hear any screaming or yelling or
anything. Frost has again, if Monahan fired the gun on
purpose. No, he says while crying,
you now know that the second shot her killing. How does that
make you feel?
I can't I just it's indescribable. I don't even
know how to respond to it. I just feel like my soul is
dead. A hole in me. I took somebody else's life. It's
horrible.