A student at the University of South Carolina was killed early Saturday morning when he was shot through a door after trying to enter the wrong house on his street, NBC News reports. Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, a 20-year-old exercise science student from Georgia, reportedly tried to open the front door of a house down the street from his residence on South Holly Street and was shot in the chest.
The name of the shooter was not released, nor was any information about the weapon used or if it was registered. In South Carolina, one does not have to be licensed or registered to own a gun.
Police responded to reports of shots being fired to find Donofrio dead on the front porch of a house with a single gunshot to the chest. Given the time and day of the incident–after midnight on a weekend–it’s possible the victim was impaired after a typical night of college partying as classes got underway. And given the new school year, the student may have moved into a new residence for the school year and simply forgotten his house number. But this is what happens when you go to the wrong door in one of Jason Aldean’s small towns: You get shot by a hyper-paranoid gun nut.