{"id":2015563,"date":"2023-08-29T14:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-say-university-of-south-carolina-student-fatally-shot-while-trying-to-enter-wrong-home\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:30:11","slug":"police-say-university-of-south-carolina-student-fatally-shot-while-trying-to-enter-wrong-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-say-university-of-south-carolina-student-fatally-shot-while-trying-to-enter-wrong-home\/","title":{"rendered":"USC student killed in mistaken home entry, police report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-say-university-of-south-carolina-student-fatally-shot-while-trying-to-enter-wrong-home%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2015563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Tragic Incident:\u2064 University Student Fatally Shot in Columbia<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teen-who-lost-legs-in-car-accident-sues-st-louis-after-man-allegedly-responsible-was-out-on-bond\/\" title=\"Teen sues St. Louis after accident; responsible man out on bond.\">heartbreaking turn<\/a> of events, a University of South Carolina\u200d student \u2062lost \u200chis life in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">early hours<\/a> of Saturday. \u200dNicholas Anthony Donofrio, a 20-year-old sophomore from Connecticut, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gunman-opens-fire-at-church-christmas-concert-police-rush-to-intervene\/\" title=\"Gunman Opens Fire at Church Christmas Concert, Police Rush To Intervene\">fatally shot<\/a> as he mistakenly\u2062 attempted to enter \u200cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-cop-in-breonna-taylor-case-found-not-guilty\/\" title=\"Ex-Cop in Breonna Taylor Case Found Not Guilty\">wrong home<\/a> on his off-campus street.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia \u2064Police Department responded to reports of a \u2062home burglary and shooting, only to find Mr. \u2063Donofrio&#8217;s lifeless body on a front porch around 2 a.m. \u2063He had suffered a gunshot wound to his upper body.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary information, it appears that\u2064 Mr. \u200bDonofrio \u2064lived on the same street where the incident occurred. However, he unknowingly tried to enter a different residence. The shooting took place in a Columbia neighborhood adjacent to the university campus.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related \u200bStories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/graduate-student-charged-with-murder-in-killing-of-university-of-north-carolina-faculty-member-5482443\">Graduate Student \u2063Charged With Murder in Killing of University of North Carolina Faculty Member<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/29\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/us-marines-killed-in-australian-aircraft-crash-were-from-illinois-virginia-and-colorado-5482433\">US Marines Killed in Australian Aircraft Crash\u2063 Were From Illinois, Virginia, and Colorado<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/29\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The identity\u2063 of the\u2064 shooter and whether any charges have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-say-university-of-south-carolina-student-fatally-shot-while-trying-to-enter-wrong-home\/\" title=\"USC student killed in mistaken home entry, police report.\">filed remain undisclosed<\/a> at this time. The Columbia\u200b Police Department is \u200cactively investigating the incident and is collaborating with\u2064 the Fifth Circuit Solicitor\u2019s Office to determine the circumstances surrounding the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>It is a devastating blow for the university \u200ccommunity, as classes had just \u2062resumed for the fall semester. The university expressed its condolences and assured \u200cstudents \u200bthat support and \u200bresources are available to those affected by this tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of South Carolina student, Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, was fatally shot while mistakenly attempting to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street. Police arrived after receiving reports of a burglary and shooting, but Donofrio, a 20-year-old from Connecticut, had already passed away. The incident occurred early on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2015564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}