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.

  • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
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    7 hours ago

    What is there to consider? They shot someone for knocking on their door. That’s not a very reasonable action to take.

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    18 minutes ago

    What a sad and horrific avoidable incident…how hard is it to say I have a gun and who are you…damn just a little common sense…God Bless this woman and her family… especially during the day…in no way is this an excuse I wonder what the age of the home owner is maybe I could wrangle my head around this if they were elderly…