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.
“Shot to death”
Shot to death? We call that murder. You can’t just be shooting people who come up to your front door. Really you shouldn’t be shooting people for almost any reason. Meanwhile the headlines I see like this makes it feel like people are looking for almost any excuse to shoot someone.
Literal insanity that this shit can happen in the usa every day. Fucking shit hole country.
of the home in Whitestown
you can’t make this shit up
Random woman standing on my patio with cleaning equipment. Better start blasting before I figure out what is actually happening.
This is a straight-up second-degree murder.
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Perhaps cabin fever? If someone holes up for months at a time inside their home, paranoia and delusions unavoidably take over. Add in unhealthy media such as fox news and the like, then anyone showing up at the door would become a threat.
I don’t think they deserve any excuses.
Possible explanations, not excuses.
It’s not an excuse to evade punishment, but a reason to pursue change. If we know and understand how the situation happened, we can take steps to minimize future occurrences.
Appreciate you trying to share perspective, and you’re right that the current climate of selling fear begets violence. That said, the next step is to hope that the perpetrator is penalized to the full extent of the law because anything less normalizes this reaction.
I wonder if there is a name for someone who kills someone who shows up at their door, even if they thought that person was a threat.
Dunno the name of the person, but there is a law in some places commonly known as the castle doctrine.
I meant that they are still a killer. Even if they are deemed incompetent to stand trial, they’ve taken a life. Yes, castle doctrine exists, but in most other places the wording is “reasonable force”. As in, it would be unreasonable to attack and kill someone unarmed at your door regardless of what you thought their intentions were.
Maria Florinda Rios Perez
Ah, that’s why he killed her
Here in KC, the old motherfucker who shot Ralph Yarl died awaiting trial. I hope the husband gets justice, but I doubt he will. Guns are a religion here in America from top to bottom, and no one stops to consider that you could use your fucking words before pulling that trigger.
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.
Castle doctrine. Even the name is medieval.
Doesn’t castle doctrine only apply to inside the house, anyway? Idk, IANAL
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.
Depends on what state you are in.
Chrissake, it’s not like that was in Portland
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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.
