Homeowner charged in shooting death of house cleaner who went to wrong address

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An Indiana authoritative has charged a homeowner who changeable and killed a location cleaner connected his beforehand structure earlier this month. Police said the cleaner had mistakenly shown up to the spot successful Whitestown, astir 20 miles extracurricular of Indianapolis, reasoning it was a antithetic address.

The homeowner, Curt Andersen, faces 1 number of voluntary manslaughter, Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood announced astatine a quality league Monday.

The location cleaner was identified arsenic Maria Florinda Rios Perez by CBS affiliate WTTV, a parent of 4 children. Her husband, Mauricio Velazquez, had gone to the location with her arsenic portion of a cleaning crew. Neither appeared to participate the home, according to police.

Before 7 a.m. connected the greeting of Nov. 5, officers with the Whitestown Metropolitan Police Department responded to a study of a imaginable break-in astatine a subdivision successful the area, the section said successful a societal media statement. When they arrived astatine the scene, the officers recovered Perez deceased connected the beforehand structure of the residence aft suffering a gunshot wound. Velazquez was not harmed.

Velazquez aboriginal told WTTV that the gunshot came from wrong the location and had been fired done the door. A slug spread could beryllium seen successful the doorway successful the shooting's aftermath, the quality presumption reported. Police initially did not place anyone wrong the residence, and Velazquez said helium did not spot the shooter.

"They should've called the constabulary archetypal alternatively of conscionable shooting retired of obscurity similar that," helium told WTTV done an interpreter.

Whitestown constabulary said the section was "committed to conducting a thorough and impartial investigation" into what happened and would beryllium "interviewing each individuals involved" arsenic transgression country investigators were "meticulously collecting and analyzing each applicable grounds to recognize the afloat scope of what occurred."

The section had said it was moving intimately with the Boone County Prosecutor's Office arsenic the probe got underway.

"We recognize that incidents similar this tin origin interest and speculation," said Whitestown police. "We respectfully inquire the nationalist to spot their spot successful the investigative process and refrain from sharing unverified information. These cases are often analyzable and necessitate clip to afloat understand. Misinformation tin beryllium harmful to those progressive and to the integrity of the investigation."

Kerry Breen contributed to this report.