Deadly Mistake: House Cleaner Killed After Going to Wrong Home Highlights Dangerous Overreach of ‘Castle Doctrine’

In the quiet suburb of Whitestown, Indiana, a heartbreaking tragedy unfolded when 32-year-old Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez was fatally shot on her employer’s front porch — not for any criminal act, but because she arrived at the wrong house. This grim incident exposes how misguided applications of the so-called 'castle doctrine' put hardworking Americans at risk every day.Rios Perez, a mother of four and a diligent member of a cleaning crew, was simply performing honest labor to support her family. Yet despite no evidence of threat or wrongdoing, she was met with deadly force by a homeowner who...