Mauricio Velázquez said he checked the location of the address twice, and drove around the Whitestown subdivision once to confirm he and his wife were at the right home. The couple, self-employed house cleaners, approached the two-story home on the quiet street before dawn.

Velázquez was looking for the correct key on a ring, and Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez jokingly told her husband he was losing his sight, taking the keys from his hand.

"She didn't even put the key in when I heard the shot happen," Velázquez told IndyStar through a loved one who translated. "I saw my wife had stepped back twice, and then the keys dropped. Then she dropped, and I went to catch her. I was trying to console her and tell her everything was going to OK, but I was seeing the blood coming out."

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