Cleaning woman fatally shot after arriving at the wrong house

A mom of four from Indiana was fatally gunned down after arriving at the wrong address for her cleaning job — and her grieving husband watched her die is now demanding justice.

Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez, 32, was shot dead just before 7 a.m. Wednesday as she and her husband, Mauricio Velázquez, arrived at a Whitestown home they’d been hired to clean, IndyStar reported.

The couple, who are self-employed cleaners, checked the address twice and circled the neighborhood — a tiny suburb about 22 miles from Downtown Indianapolis — to make sure they were in the right place, the report said.

As they tried to get the keys they’d been provided into the door of the stately home — and Pérez teased her fumbling husband and grabbed the keyring from him — a single shot rang out, and the mother dropped bleeding to the ground.

“She didn’t even put the key in when I heard the shot happen,” Velázquez told IndyStar. “I saw my wife had stepped back twice, and then the keys dropped.”

“Then she dropped, and I went to catch her. I was trying to console her and tell her everything was going to be OK, but I was seeing the blood coming out.”

A 911 call went out reporting a home invasion at the address around the same time, and when Whitestown Metropolitan Police arrived, they found the mother and her distraught husband on the porch. After attempting to save her, Pérez was declared dead at the scene.

“Just pray for my family,” Velázquez said of his four kids, one of whom isn’t even 1 yet. “Raising them isn’t going to be easy.”

Police soon ruled out any notion that the couple had been trying to break into the home and confirmed they were actually under the impression they were walking into a home they’d been hired to clean.

“The facts gathered do not support that a residential entry occurred,” Whitestown Police said in a statement.

“The loss of life is always a profound tragedy, and our hearts and prayers go out to all those affected,” police added.

An investigation is underway to determine what will happen next. No arrests have been made.

Indiana has strong “stand your ground” laws allowing homeowners to use fatal force to protect themselves and their property.

“When it comes to a dwelling, individuals can use reasonable force, including deadly force, against another person,” Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood told NBC News.

“They have no duty to retreat, that’s in the law. That person who uses that force has to reasonably believe that the force is necessary to prevent or terminate an awful entry or attack on the person’s dwelling,” he added.

Nevertheless, Velázquez wants justice for his wife’s death. The couple had been living in Indianapolis for a year.

“For me, she was the love of my life,” he said. “She was a good wife and a good mother.”

The victim leaves behind three daughters, ages 17, 10 and 8, and an almost 1-year-old son.

He is working on returning his wife’s body to their hometown in Guatemala.