South Carolina college student fatally shot trying to enter wrong home – police

Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, of Connecticut, lived on same street as where he was shot adjacent to University of South Carolina campus

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

Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20, of Madison, 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 at about 2am Saturday, and Donofrio had a gunshot wound to his upper body, the release said.