Several family members, accompanied by an attorney, met Monday with Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood to discuss the case of Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez, a house cleaner who was shot and killed last week after mistakenly going to the wrong address.

“My clients just want justice for Maria,” said Alexander Limontes, the family’s attorney, speaking to reporters after the meeting. “They just want to see justice be done. And however that comes, in whatever form, they are willing to be patient with the process.”

Outside the prosecutor’s office, a crowd of relatives and community members gathered, chanting “No justice, no peace” in both Spanish and English. Some demonstrators, visibly emotional, broke into tears as they held signs reading “Justice for Maria.”

“We know we’re immigrants, but we still have rights. We’re not animals — we’re people, just like everyone else. We have blood, too. All I’m asking for is justice,” said Mauricio Velasquez Rio, Velasquez’s husband

Police officers found 32-year-old Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez dead just before 7 a.m. Wednesday on the front porch of the home in Whitestown, an Indianapolis suburb of about 10,000 people, according to a police news release. She was part of a cleaning crew that had gone to the wrong address, the release said.

Authorities have not publicly identified the shooter and had shared few details on their investigation by Friday. Whitestown Police Capt. John Jurkash called the case “complex and evolving" in an email to the AP. He said that he expects to issue an update next week.

Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood told the AP on Friday that he expects police to finish their investigation early next week but the decision on whether to file charges won't be easy.

The case brings Indiana's castle doctrine laws squarely into play, he said. Those laws allow a person to use reasonable force, including deadly force, to stop what they reasonably believe is an unlawful entry into their dwelling. Thirty-one states have similar laws on the books, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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.

Eastwood said he will have to pore over investigators' findings to understand what happened in the moments leading up to the shooting. That means reviewing “every second” of witnesses' taped interviews and doorbell footage if police bring him any, he said.

“You need to understand all the details so you can understand what happened and what is reasonable,” Eastwood said. “One of the hardest things today in this world is to agree on what's reasonable. As a prosecutor, those are things we have to grapple with.”

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