Authorities are considering whether to charge an Indiana homeowner who they say shot and killed a woman working as a house cleaner after she came to the wrong address.

Authorities are considering whether to charge an Indiana homeowner who they say shot and killed a woman working as a house cleaner after she mistakenly went to the wrong address.

Police officers found 32-year-old Maria Florinda Rios Perez dead just before 7 a.m. Wednesday on the front porch of the home in Whitestown, an Indianapolis suburb of about 10,000 people, according to a police news release. She was part of a cleaning crew that had gone to the wrong address, the release said.

Rios Perez’s husband, Mauricio Velazquez, told WRTV in Indianapolis that he and his wife had been cleaning homes for seven months. Velazquez said he was standing with her at the home’s front door on Wednesday morning but didn’t realize she had been shot until she fell into his arms, bleeding.

  • Bone@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 小时前

    I read this article yesterday, and I don’t believe it got into detail, but I wondered if say she had a key to the house she was supposed to be at but attempted entry at the wrong house. It’d at least be a little different than knocking or ringing a doorbell. What the rest of it says about the state of things, I don’t know, I just wondered about that.

    • ultranaut@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 小时前

      They had keys, the husband tried first and then when the wife tried she was shot in the head through the door. I don’t think it changes anything, cleaners showing up at the wrong house never posed any threat and the shooter seemingly made no attempt at identifying who was at their door.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOP
    19·
    6 小时前

    Here in KC, the old motherfucker who shot Ralph Yarl died awaiting trial. I hope the husband gets justice, but I doubt he will. Guns are a religion here in America from top to bottom, and no one stops to consider that you could use your fucking words before pulling that trigger.

    • Bone@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 小时前

      30+ states seem to have made it legal to not have to ask questions (maybe that’s going further than what the article said, which just said they have similar castle doctrine-like laws). Not saying that’s a good thing, but it appears that’s what some are prepared for.

        • Bone@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 小时前

          It says something about gaining unlawful entry… But I’m no expert.

          Some laws back in the day, at least in the US, had it extend to wherever your body was, essentially in an effort to not have to flee or retreat from a threat, as that was seen as un-American. Just a brief snippet of what I read on Wikipedia about the matter.

          • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 小时前

            Those are the “Stand Your Ground” laws. Basically means you don’t have an obligation to retreat.

  • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works
    63·
    6 小时前

    Random woman standing on my patio with cleaning equipment. Better start blasting before I figure out what is actually happening.

    This is a straight-up second-degree murder.

    • lath@lemmy.world
      114·
      6 小时前

      Perhaps cabin fever? If someone holes up for months at a time inside their home, paranoia and delusions unavoidably take over. Add in unhealthy media such as fox news and the like, then anyone showing up at the door would become a threat.