Man mistakes woman for monkey, shoots her

A man in Malaysia mistook his female neighbor for a monkey and shot her. His neighbor was picking sapodilla fruit from a tree in his yard.

How do you mistake a woman for a monkey? I Googled the sapodilla fruit tree to see what it looks like. Granted it does look like it can have some thick foliage, but still. If it sounded like someone or something was in the tree, don't you think the man would have investigated it first? Maybe he could have walked around the tree to see if it really was a monkey?

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