Man charged in shooting death of cleaning woman at front door

(NYT) — A man in Indiana was charged with manslaughter Monday in the death of a cleaning woman who was shot through a front door when she arrived at the wrong house this month.

The man who was charged, Curt Andersen, 62, owned the home in Whitestown, a suburb of Indianapolis, where the cleaner had arrived with her husband before dawn Nov. 5. Andersen was charged with voluntary manslaughter, a felony that can bring between 10 and 30 years in prison, and he was booked into jail.

The woman who was killed, María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez, 32, was the mother of four children, the youngest of whom is 1 year old, and she had immigrated with her husband from Guatemala about three years ago, according to her brother.

Andersen,

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