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.
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.
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.