US EditionHouse cleaner shot to death on front porch after going to wrong house in Indianapolis suburb
- Whitestown police said on Nov 8 they had finished an initial probe into the fatal shooting of Maria Florinda Rios Perez de Velasquez, 32, in Whitestown, Indiana.
- Mauricio Velazquez said he and his wife were house cleaners who had been working seven months and double-checked the address before mistakenly arriving at the wrong house.
- Whitestown police say she was hit by a single gunshot fired from inside the home just before dawn after a 911 call, and responders found her on the front porch.
- The Boone County Coroner's Office ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot to the head, and Whitestown police submitted the case to Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood, who will review evidence and likely update charges next week.
- Nichole Armenta started a GoFundMe and neighbours have donated thousands to help with burial plans and family needs, while Velazquez must raise their four children alone, including an 11‑month‑old.
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A 32-year-old cleaning lady in the United States has been shot dead - after she accidentally went to the wrong address. - It felt like everything was taken away from me, her husband tells Spanish-language Telemundo.
House cleaner shot to death on front porch after going to wrong house
In this image from video provided by WRTV, investigators work at the site of the fatal shooting of house cleaner Maria Florinda Rios Perez who went to the wrong address in Whitestown, Ind., on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. | WRTV via AP 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 Mari…
The woman and her husband tried to enter the house when from the inside someone shot through the front door.
In Whitestown, Indiana, a housekeeper was shot and killed after accidentally trying to enter a house at the wrong address early one morning. One of the residents shot the 32-year-old woman in the head from inside the house. She died in her husband's arms. The couple, Maria Florinda Rios Perez de Velasquez and Mauricio Velazquez, had a cleaning job in Whitestown, a suburb of Indianapolis. They thought they were at the right house. "We checked the…
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