By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated  Press Reporter The police officer who fatally shot a Hofstra University junior as she was being held at gunpoint by an intruder last year has been cleared of any wrongdoing. Officer Nikolas Budimlic ‘acted accordingly’ when he opened fire, killing not only the armed suspect but 21-year-old Andrea Rebello in May 2013, at an off-campus New York house, the Nassau County District Attorney's Office announced on Wednesday following an 11-month investigation. Budimlic ‘reasonably perceived threats of deadly force against himself and others and acted accordingly,’ the report states. Scroll down for video Twins Jessica and Andrea Rebello, seen in this undated Facebook photo, were startled when Dalton Smith broke into their off-campus home
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Andrea Rebello was killed by a single bullet by a police officer who was firing at her capture during May 2013 home invasion
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Officer Nikolas Budimlic has been cleared of any wrongdoing following an 11-month investigation
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Rebello's family had been attempting to sue Nassau County for wrongful death
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Dalton Smith, 30, apparently broke into the home after following the Rebello twins and their friends from an off-campus bar
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He was shot seven times by Budimlic
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