Maria Florinda Rios Perez was a mother, a wife and a sister. Her family is seeking justice after she was shot and killed when she showed up to clean a home but was given the wrong address, relatives said.

Her husband, Mauricio Velazquez, said he and his wife had been cleaning homes for seven months. He said he double-checked the address before they arrived at the home where his wife was shot and killed in the Heritage subdivision of Whitestown, Indiana. He spoke through a translator.

“I never thought it was a shot, but I realized when my wife took two steps back,” Velazquez, Maria’s husband, said. “She looked like she’d been hit in the head. She fell into my arms, and I saw that the blood went everywhere."

An autopsy by the Boone County Coroner’s Office determined the manner of death wa

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