US EditionIndiana homeowner charged in fatal shooting of house cleaner who showed up at the wrong door
Curt Anderson faces 10 to 30 years for killing a cleaning worker who arrived at the wrong house; prosecutors ruled self-defense laws do not apply to the shooting.
- On Monday, Boone County prosecutors charged Curt Andersen, 62, Whitestown homeowner, with voluntary manslaughter for a Nov. 5 shooting and booked him into Boone County Jail.
- Mauricio Velasquez said Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez and he, part of a cleaning crew, mistakenly tried keys at the wrong house for around 30 seconds after their employer gave them a nearby model home address.
- Authorities reported that Andersen fired a single shot through the front door, and a bullet hole was visible in the door before Velasquez was found dead on the front porch with a gunshot wound to the head.
- Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood said Indiana's self-defense protections do not apply and Andersen faces 10 to 30 years and a $US10,000 fine; Eastwood said, it's "vitally important" this is not seen as a challenge to Indiana's stand-your-ground law.
- The shooting has drawn national attention, with comparisons to the Ralph Yarl case in Missouri; the victim's Guatemalan family seeks to bury Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez in Guatemala along with her four children.
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Whitestown porch shooting case to pit gun laws vs. reasonableness
WHITESTOWN, Ind. — Curt Andersen is being held without bond in the Boone County Jail pending an initial hearing Friday morning on a voluntary manslaughter charge for the fatal shooting of housekeeper Maria Florinda Rios Perez de Velasquez on his Whitestown front porch before dawn on Nov. 5. Maria and her husband were on an [...]
Indiana man charged for killing cleaner who went to wrong house
An Indiana homeowner was charged Monday for fatally shooting a cleaner who went to the wrong house. Curt Andersen, 62, was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez, 32, in the Indianapolis suburb of Whitestown, prosecutors announced Monday. Andersen fatally shot Rios on Nov. 5 and admitted as much in a police interview, but the charges were delayed while prosecutors considered Indiana’s “stand yo…
Indiana man accused of killing house cleaner who mistakenly arrived at front door charged with manslaughter
Curt Andersen faces manslaughter charges after fatally shooting Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez, a house cleaner who mistakenly arrived at his Whitestown home.
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