An Indiana man has been charged with voluntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a cleaning woman who mistakenly went to the wrong house, prosecutors announced Monday, nearly two weeks after the mother of four was killed.
The suspect, Curt Andersen, has been booked into the Boone County Jail without bond and will appear in court sometime this week, prosecutors said.
Curt Andersen’s booking photo.
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Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood said the decision to file the charge comes after a “thorough examination,” in which his office determined that Andersen’s actions were not covered by the legal protections provided by Indiana’s Stand Your Ground law.
“We maintain that the person did not have a reasonable belief that that type of force was necessary, given all the facts available to him at the time,” Eastwood said during a news conference Monday.
A woman who worked as a cleaner was fatally shot at a home in Whitestown, Indiana, after police say she mistakenly headed to the wrong address.
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The shooting occurred the morning of Nov. 5 in a subdivision of Whitestown, located about 20 miles northwest of Indianapolis, police said.
Officers responding to a 911 call reporting a possible home invasion shortly before 7 a.m. found the woman dead on the front porch of the residence with a gunshot wound, Whitestown police said.
A resident of the home fired the gun from inside, police said.
Police later determined that the woman was part of a cleaning crew that had mistakenly arrived at the wrong address and that “the facts gathered do not support” that a home invasion occurred.
Boone County Coroner’s Office identified shooting victim like María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez, from Indianapolis, 32 years old. He died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner’s office said.
Eastwood said his office began a review of the case on Nov. 10 following a “thorough and professional” police investigation, which included recorded witness statements and crime scene diagrams.
The prosecutor said he has received words of support from people who said they were praying for him “because we know he has to make a difficult decision.”
“Honestly, it wasn’t,” he said. “I hate to sound arrogant about it, but it wasn’t a difficult decision.”
The husband of María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez speaks with ABC affiliate WRTV Indianapolis, November 6, 2025.
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Velasquez’s husband told ABC affiliate WRTV in Indianapolis that they had been cleaning houses for seven months and that he was with her when she was shot.
“I never thought it was a gunshot, but I noticed that when my wife took two steps back, it looked like she had been hit in the head,” her husband, Mauricio Velásquez, told WRTV in Spanish.
“She fell into my arms and I saw the blood. It went everywhere,” he told the station.
They have four children, the youngest 11 months old, according to WRTV.
“This is a tragedy for everyone involved, and our hearts and prayers go out to his family as they go through this difficult time,” Eastwood said.
The prosecutor said this type of case is “very rare” in Boone County and rebuked what he called “false and misleading information” circulating since the shooting, including the claim that the person who committed the crime was a police officer.
“This must stop immediately,” he said. “It doesn’t help the process. It doesn’t help this case. It undermines the integrity of the judicial process. It promotes confusion and harms both the victim’s family and the defendant’s right to a fair trial.”
