She just got off the elevator on the wrong floor without realizing it. Every floor is practically identical, and you’re on autopilot.
Yes, I have put my key in the wrong lock - ooops, that door says 1026, not 1226!
“Every floor is practically identical, and you’re on autopilot.”
Are all the apartments furnished identically?
Are the numbers on the doors identical?
“Her key didn’t work in the door,” Steve Eager wrote. “Shooting happened
shortly after resident opened his own door.”
Your key works in someone else’s lock?
Yes! That is exactly how it could happen.
His apartment had a red doormat in front of it. Her door did not. A red doormat is kind of hard to miss.
Was his door locked? Who leaves their door unlocked at night these days, especially in a big city?
Anyway, no cop is supposed to go drinking and carry their weapon. That is a definite no-no.