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.
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.
Doesn’t castle doctrine only apply to inside the house, anyway? Idk, IANAL
Depends on what state you are in.
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.
Those are the “Stand Your Ground” laws. Basically means you don’t have an obligation to retreat.