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groundloop

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Mon Nov 17, 2025, 05:17 PM 15 hrs ago

Indiana man charged in fatal shooting of cleaning woman who accidentally went to wrong home [View all]

Source: ABC News

An Indiana man has been charged with voluntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a cleaning woman who mistakenly went to the wrong home, 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 on a no bond hold and will appear in court sometime this week, prosecutors said.

The Boone County prosecutor, Kent Eastwood, said the decision to file the charge follows a "comprehensive examination," in which his office determined Andersen's actions did not fall under the legal protections provided by the Indiana Stand Your Ground law.

"It's our contention that the person did not have a reasonable belief that that type of force was necessary, given all the facts that he had at that time," Eastwood said during a press briefing on Monday.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/indiana-man-charged-fatal-shooting-cleaning-woman-wrong-home/story?id=127597932



The woman, Maria Florinda Rios Perez de Velasquez, was part of a home cleaning crew that mistakenly went to the wrong address.
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