A 20 year old University of South Carolina student was shot and killed

[Dante Reawakened]

A University of South Carolina student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street early on Saturday, police said.

Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20, of Connecticut, was dead by the time police responded to reports of a home burglary and shooting, according to a Columbia Police Department news release. Officers found his body on a front porch around 2 a.m., and Donofrio had a gunshot wound to his upper body, the release said.

Police said preliminary information indicated that Donofrio, a sophomore, lived on the same street as where he was shot but apparently was attempting to enter another home. The shooting occurred in a Columbia neighborhood adjacent to the campus.

The statement didn't say who shot the student or whether any charges were immediately filed. In an email on Saturday afternoon, a department spokesperson said the investigation "remains active" but didn't release more information.

I can see some of the members here doing this type of shooting, what with all the crazed talks about fears of everything and everyone around them. Many people I know have one time or another mistaken a place for their apartment/home. Good gawd, what a preventable tragedy. 20 years old?

University of South Carolina student fatally shot while trying to enter wrong home: police

Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20, was found dead on the front porch of an off-campus home by Columbia police officers after they received a call of a reported home burglary, the department said in a p…

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The police department said its investigators are consulting with the Fifth Circuit Solicitor's Office on the circumstances of the shooting.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Hmm...

The shooting comes about four months after a similar shooting in Kansas City, Missouri. Ralph Yarl, 17, was shot in the head and arm on the evening of April 13 when he went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings, according to police.

Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old homeowner who shot Yarl, was arrested and charged with one count of felony assault in the first degree and one count of armed criminal action, also a felony. Lester pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on April 18 on a $200,000 bond.

According to a probable cause statement obtained by ABC News, Lester told police that he "believed someone was attempting to break into the house" and grabbed a gun before going to the door because he was scared. Lester, who is white, claimed that he saw a "Black male approximately 6 feet tall" pulling on the door handle and "shot twice within a few seconds of opening the door."

I wonder -- MAGA guy?

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A University of South Carolina student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street early on Saturday, police said.

Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20, of Connecticut, was dead by the time police responded to reports of a home burglary and shooting, according to a Columbia Police Department news release. Officers found his body on a front porch around 2 a.m., and Donofrio had a gunshot wound to his upper body, the release said.

Police said preliminary information indicated that Donofrio, a sophomore, lived on the same street as where he was shot but apparently was attempting to enter another home. The shooting occurred in a Columbia neighborhood adjacent to the campus.

The statement didn't say who shot the student or whether any charges were immediately filed. In an email on Saturday afternoon, a department spokesperson said the investigation "remains active" but didn't release more information.

I can see some of the members here doing this type of shooting, what with all the crazed talks about fears of everything and everyone around them. Many people I know have one time or another mistaken a place for their apartment/home. Good gawd, what a preventable tragedy. 20 years old?

University of South Carolina student fatally shot while trying to enter wrong home: police

Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20, was found dead on the front porch of an off-campus home by Columbia police officers after they received a call of a reported home burglary, the department said in a p…

nypost.com

The police department said its investigators are consulting with the Fifth Circuit Solicitor's Office on the circumstances of the shooting.

People are just looking for excuses now to kill people.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

People are just looking for excuses now to kill people.

I don't believe so. I believe people have been convinced that teh world is such a dangerous place, and they potential victims of bad people,

 

[leftwinger]

Needle in haystack. Stuff happens. 4000-year shot in CH alone and dic like you cherry-pick.
dont go banging around on porches and doors at 2AM drunk would be a good idea. Shame. Old guy got woken up and was cloudy as to what was going on Perhaps?

 

[john doe 101]

I don't believe so. I believe people have been convinced that teh world is such a dangerous place, and they potential victims of bad people,

Look no further than this message board. Plenty of right wing nut jobs on here just itching to kill someone.

 

[john doe 101]

Needle in haystack. Stuff happens. 4000-year shot in CH alone and dic like you cherry-pick.
dont go banging around on porches and doors at 2AM drunk would be a good idea. Shame. Old guy got woken up and was cloudy as to what was going on.

Old guy homeowner was "cloudy".....so just fire away, right?

 

[DukeU]

Many people I know have one time or another mistaken a place for their apartment/home.

If you don't know where you live, something is wrong...drunk or high on drugs.

Or are they trying to cover up that this person was trying to break in?

 

[DukeU]

Old guy homeowner was "cloudy".....so just fire away, right?

The message here is, don't try to enter places you don't belong.

 

[john doe 101]

The message here is, don't try to enter places you don't belong.

It's pretty vague as to what exactly happened because this just happened Saturday morning. And we may never know exactly what happened because as of right now, it appears there were only two witnesses and one of them is dead.

 

[hjmick]

Many people I know have one time or another mistaken a place for their apartment/home.

Then I suggest you find a better class of people with whom to associate. In all my years, with all my friends and acquaintances, I have never know a single one who mistook someone else's home or apartment for their own.

As to the shooting itself, unless your front door has been splintered and someone is on the verge of entering, why would you pull the trigger? The report says this kid's body was laying on the front porch... I'm okay with the arrest.

 

[john doe 101]

Then I suggest you find a better class of people with whom to associate. In all my years, with all my friends and acquaintances, I have never know a single one who mistook someone else's home or apartment for their own.

As to the shooting itself, unless your front door has been splintered and someone is on the verge of entering, why would you pull the trigger? The report says this kid's body was laying on the front porch... I'm okay with the arrest.

Take a look at what people on this message board say. Many of them would have done the same thing. Wake up.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Hmm...

The shooting comes about four months after a similar shooting in Kansas City, Missouri. Ralph Yarl, 17, was shot in the head and arm on the evening of April 13 when he went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings, according to police.

Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old homeowner who shot Yarl, was arrested and charged with one count of felony assault in the first degree and one count of armed criminal action, also a felony. Lester pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on April 18 on a $200,000 bond.

According to a probable cause statement obtained by ABC News, Lester told police that he "believed someone was attempting to break into the house" and grabbed a gun before going to the door because he was scared. Lester, who is white, claimed that he saw a "Black male approximately 6 feet tall" pulling on the door handle and "shot twice within a few seconds of opening the door."

I wonder -- MAGA guy?

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Shot twice within seconds of opening the door. Who opened the door.

 

[john doe 101]

The message here is, don't try to enter places you don't belong.

I thought the message would be learn how to use a gun properly before opening fire on someone standing on your porch.

 

[hjmick]

Take a look at what people on this message board say. Many of them would have done the same thing. Wake up.

I don't give two shits what other people on this board would do. I have a policy: I do not shoot at something I can't see, and I do not point my gun at anything or anyone unless I am prepared to pull the trigger.

 

[leftwinger]

Take a look at what people on this message board say. Many of them would have done the same thing. Wake up.

Bullcrap. If the guy shot thru the door, as Hijinx posted that is a problem. If the door or window was broken, kicked in? Stranger was entering? Different story.

 

[john doe 101]

I don't give two shits what other people on this board would do. I have a policy: I do not shoot at something I can't see, and I do not point my gun at anything or anyone unless I am prepared to pull the trigger.

You better care what people on here would do because there are millions of others in America just like them that are as uncivilized as they are.

 

[leftwinger]

Shot twice within seconds of opening the door. Who opened the door.

even then I would hope he yelled halt or get out of my house? If the dead was unarmed! This seems bad.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Probably a MAGA pretending to be drunk and lost in an attempt to burgle a home.

 

[Mr Natural]

Look no further than this message board. Plenty of right wing nut jobs on here just itching to kill someone.

Isn’t that the whole reason for owning guns?