A 32-year-old woman who was part of a cleaning crew was fatally shot at an Indiana home after the workers mistakenly went to the wrong address, police said.
The shooting occurred Wednesday morning in a subdivision of Whitestown, located approximately 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.
The gun had been fired from inside the home, according to Whitestown Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Capt. John Jurkash.
"It was later determined that the individuals attempting to enter the home were members of a cleaning crew who had mistakenly arrived at the wrong address," the Whitestown Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement, adding that "the facts gathered do not support" that a home invasion occurred.
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The Boone County Coroner's Office identified the shooting victim on Thursday as 32-year-old Maria Florinda Rios Perez de Velasquez of Indianapolis. She died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.
Velasquez's husband told ABC Indianapolis affiliate WRTV that they had been cleaning homes for seven months and he was with her when she was shot.
"I never thought it was a shot, but I realized when my wife took two steps back, she looked like she'd been hit in the head," her husband, Mauricio Velasquez, 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.
"What I need now is for there to be justice, because he took her life, in that sense," he told WRTV. "I don't believe that's human."
The investigation remains ongoing, police said.
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Jurkash told reporters in a briefing Wednesday that detectives are working to "unravel what exactly happened and if applicable what charges there would be."
The police department said Friday it has formally submitted the case to the Boone County Prosecutor's Office for review.
The Boone County prosecutor, Kent Eastwood, told ABC News on Friday that his office hopes to be in a position to make any charging decision in the case by the end of next week or the following week based on a "thorough investigation" by the police department.
The shot was fired from inside the house by one of the residents, according to Jurkash. No further details on the shooter have been released by police.
The police department said Friday it has not released the name of the homeowner due to the "complex, delicate and evolving case," and that "it would be inappropriate and potentially dangerous to disclose that information."
The police department also confirmed that a police officer does not reside at or have any personal connection to the residence, following what it said is "false and misleading information circulating on social media, suggesting that a local police officer resides at the home where the incident occurred."
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