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Posted on 11/06/2025 2:04:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
A mom of four from Indiana was fatally gunned down after arriving at the wrong address for her cleaning job — and her grieving husband, who watched her die, is now demanding justice.
Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez, 32, was shot dead just before 7 a.m. Wednesday as she and her husband, Mauricio Velázquez, arrived at a Whitestown home they’d been hired to clean, IndyStar reported. The couple, who are self-employed cleaners, checked the address twice and circled the neighborhood — a tiny suburb about 22 miles from Downtown Indianapolis — to make sure they were in the right place, the report said.
As they tried to get the keys they’d been provided into the door of the stately home — and Pérez teased her fumbling husband and grabbed the keyring from him — a single shot rang out, and the mother dropped bleeding to the ground.
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Appears to be a very bad shoot...
Death Penalty would be warranted, if it’s as bad as it looks.
Yes. At the very least.
Defending yourself is one thing.
Shooting someone standing on your porch without real evidence they are intending violence (such as looking out the living room window and seeing guys with their faces covered holding weapons at 2 AM) is indeed a bad shoot.
We will have to see what the investigation shows because we are only hearing one side of this right now (and there is no real reason to doubt that version) but I have a hard time finding any excuse that might be offered that would be a satisfactory justification.
I predict they will be prosecuted.
What a terribly sad story. My heart hurts for the family.
“ Appears to be a very bad shoot...”
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It certainly does! ☹️☹️
Someone’s going to jail and rightfully so. If I hear rattling at my door I’m waiting until it’s breached, and I see who it is before I make the decision to pull the trigger. Obviously the four rules of firearm safety were not followed in this case.
Somebody had something to hide.
Some key tidbits at the bottom of the article:
The couple had been living in Indianapolis for a year.... He is working on returning his wife’s body to their hometown in Guatemala.
There could be much more to this story.
It was 7 am, might have been Jehovah’s Witnesses. Anybody would shoot.
(/s, if needed)
Yes. I blame the person doing the shooting (at this time) because no matter how bad the Left has damaged personal safety and protection by both law enforcement and the legal system, in the end, when you own a weapon...it is YOUR responsibility.
Now, we don’t know the full details. It took place at 0700 so I assume there was enough light, and the woman was shot before they entered the house, if the story is true.
I thought about this, trying to see if I could concoct a story that would have any chance of justifying it in any way, , and wondered what it it were 4:00 AM, these cleaning people were told they could clean this house at any time because the occupants were out of town, so they were up at the crack of dawn to get a start, went to the wrong house, and somehow got into the house and got shot in the dark, but...that is all just a mental exercise. I couldn’t think of any way to frame it with the given facts.
I don’t see any way to justify this shooting with the facts from the story. That is a circle that can’t be squared. We need to let justice take its course.
“When it comes to a dwelling, individuals can use reasonable force, including deadly force, against another person,” Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood told NBC News. “They have no duty to retreat, that’s in the law. That person who uses that force has to reasonably believe that the force is necessary to prevent or terminate an awful entry or attack on the person’s dwelling,” he added.
>> There could be much more to this story.
I’m sure there is. There was also no explanation about how “double checking the address” fits in with “ended up at the wrong address”. The family does not look the least bit evil, I will say that much. My heart and prayers go out to the children.
Colorado’s castle doctrine requires the intruder be INSIDE your home BEFORE using lethal violence ...
Of course, but reading between the lines, they would have been better of if they stayed in Guatemala.
True, but this is Indiana. And I dont know Indiana law in detail enough to say, but the prosecutor quoted implies that the act of making entry is sufficient.
What a laugh "Indiana Woman".
Indiana’s castle does NOT require the intruder to be inside the home, at least according to this article.
I think this case will still go to trial, civilly if not criminally.
I never trust the fake news media’s first draft of a seemingly black and white story. I’ll wait to see if there’s more to this story.
I see and agree with the point you are making. It appears Indiana law differs from other states, in that a person can defend their home while perceived to be breaking in and physically outside of the door threshold.
And have the residents that did the shooting been victims of break-ins before, especially by illegals? Or have they or others in the neighborhood been subjected to other violence by illegals?
Were the cleaning people skilled enough in the English language and our culture to know for sure they had the right home? The answer is obvious, no they weren’t, or they would have been at the right home and no one would have been shot.
It’s truly sad this lady had to be killed. If these people were illegals, this never would have happened if they were still in their country of origin. More info needs to come out to see what other facts come into play.
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