Fatal Whitestown shooting of house cleaner sparks misinformation online

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Though the fatal shooting of a woman who arrived at the wrong Whitestown address for a cleaning job drew international media attention within days, authorities remained remarkably tight-lipped about their investigation until nearly two weeks after the death of Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velázquez .

In the absence of verifiable facts, misinformation about Ríos Pérez's death and the shooter's identity flooded social media. Even after the Boone County Prosecutor's Office announced a voluntary manslaughter charge against the alleged shooter, 62-year-old Curt Andersen , on Nov. 17, misinformation about the shooting continues to proliferate online — a fact that Prosecutor Kent Eastwood acknowledged alongside the case's filing.

"During the pendency of this