"Authorities in Indiana are considering whether to charge a homeowner who they say shot and killed a woman after she mistakenly went to the wrong address where she thought she was turning up to clean a property. Police officers found Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez, 32, dead just before 7am Wednesday on the front porch of a home in Whitestown, an Indianapolis suburb of about 10,000 people."
"The case will put a focus on Indiana's castle doctrine laws which allow a person to use deadly force, to stop what they reasonably believe is an unlawful entry into their dwelling. But the killing has shocked many. Rios Perez's husband, Mauricio Velazquez, told WRTV in Indianapolis that he was standing with her at the home's front door but didn't realize she had been shot until she fell into his arms, bleeding."
"In similar cases elsewhere, prosecutors have successfully brought charges against people who opened fire outside their homes, including a guilty plea by an 86-year-old man who shot Ralph Yarl after the Black teenager came to his door by mistake. In New York, a man was convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a woman inside a car who came down his driveway by mistake."
Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez, 32, was found dead just before 7am Wednesday on a Whitestown front porch. She was part of a cleaning crew that mistakenly went to the wrong address. Authorities say a homeowner shot and killed her; the shooter has not been publicly identified. Police turned their investigation findings over to Boone County prosecutor Kent Eastwood for a charging decision. The case raises issues tied to Indiana's castle doctrine, which permits deadly force to stop a reasonably perceived unlawful entry. Her husband said he only realized she had been shot when she fell into his arms; the killing shocked many.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]