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Justin Price

'Senseless and Cruel': Mum-of-Four Killed After Accidentally Arriving at Wrong Home for Cleaning Job

Police say a homeowner fired through his front door and killed a house cleaner who had mistakenly arrived at the wrong address.

A 32-year-old Guatemalan mother of four was shot dead on the front porch of an Indiana home on 5 November after mistakenly arriving at the wrong address for a house-cleaning appointment. Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez never entered the property before homeowner Curt Andersen, 58, fired a single bullet through his front door, striking her in the head as her husband stood beside her.

Andersen was charged with voluntary manslaughter on Monday after prosecutors determined his actions fell outside the protections of Indiana's stand-your-ground law.

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