Indiana homeowner charged in fatal shooting of house cleaner who showed up at the wrong door

AP News ^ | Updated 6:33 PM CST, November 17, 2025 | TODD RICHMOND and OBED LAMY

[Kleon]

Indiana is one of 31 states with a stand-your-ground law that permits homeowners to use deadly force to stop someone they believe is trying to unlawfully enter their dwelling. But police said that there’s no evidence Rios entered the home before she was shot.

She was on the man's property. That should be enough.

[yldstrk]

Good. It’s about time. I have been waiting for this. What is the matter with yelling through the door, what do you want? And upon hearing your cleaning lady is here, telling here you have the wrong house and sorting it out? You don’t shoot her like some cave man.

[Mariner]

“Andersen shot her through the front door with no warning about a minute after hearing someone trying to unlock the door, according to a probable cause statement.”

If true, that’s murder in every state.

[aynrandfreak]

Always double-check the address in Indiana

[yldstrk]

She was on the man’s property. That should be enough.
***********
You are a heathen.

[kiryandil]

Case puts stand-your-ground law in the spotlight

Case puts be-a-dumbass in the spotlight.

[Repeal The 17th]

What?
Again?

[Kleon]

“You are a heathen.”

If you disagree with stand-your-ground laws, by all means make your point. But don’t attack me. I’m a patriot and a gun owner.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What? Again?

Different shooting.

Michigan man charged after fatally shooting teen who broke into garage

[chaosagent]

I take it you didn't read the article.

In general, the public can legally access private property — including a front porch — for a legitimate purpose until they are told to leave, Madeira said. For example, a homeowner can’t legally shoot a pizza delivery person or an Amazon driver just for stepping onto their property, she said.

[Gasshog]

No malice no premeditation.

Plea bargain - Sentence and Parole him.
If the cleaning people are illegals, deport the husband too.

[metmom]

Indiana is one of 31 states with a stand-your-ground law that permits homeowners to use deadly force to stop someone they believe is trying to unlawfully enter their dwelling. But police said that there’s no evidence Rios entered the home before she was shot.

Except she was TRYING to enter the house, which the law allows for. The law does not mandate that the person be IN the house by the wording of *trying* to enter the house.

[Drew68]

Should’ve stayed in Guatemala.

[EnderWiggin1970]

She was on the man's property. That should be enough.

Remind me not to let any kids visit your house trick-or-treating. Good grief. Enjoy spending the rest of your life in prison after murdering the next person placing a door hanger.

[Repeal The 17th]

Well, dang...
Seems like being a house cleaner is becoming a hazardous occupation!

[EnderWiggin1970]

This has nothing to do with stand your ground laws, and it is dishonest of the leftist media to conflate the two. Being an idiot murderer who guns down innocent people who have not made the slightest hostile move on the slightest pretext has nothing to do with defending oneself and ones' family against a dangerous threat.

Stand your ground is reasonable. Murdering people who make an honest mistake and wind up on your doorstep is not. And if you are too stupid to sort out the difference between the two you have no business owning a gun.

[Mariner]

“She was on the man’s property. That should be enough.”

Yep, enough to get you a murder charge in every state.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Stand your ground is reasonable. Murdering people who make an honest mistake and wind up on your doorstep is not. And if you are too stupid to sort out the difference between the two you have no business owning a gun.

Rule #1: Identify your target before pulling the trigger.

Can't identify a target on the other side of a door.

Negligent homicide in my opinion, but IANAL.

[ansel12]

A panicky coward with a gun but this article below at least explains why as a weak man, in his mind he did what he was capable of doing, if his version is truthful then a jury has to try and see it through his eyes and sentencing has to take his panicky nature into consideration.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/11/17/charges-against-whitestown-indiana-man-who-killed-immigrant-house-cleaner-maria-rios-perez-velazquez/87323230007/