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The family of 32-year-old Maria Florinda Rios Perez, a mother of four, will never be the same. Her husband witnessed the last moments of her life.
WHITESTOWN, Ind — The family of a woman shot and killed outside a Whitestown home Wednesday morning is mourning her death, while pleading for justice.
The family of 32-year-old Maria Florinda Rios Perez will never be the same. Her husband, Mauricio Velasquez, saw the last moments of her life.
(NOTE: 13News reporter Ella Rhoades translated her interview with Perez’s family.)
“No es fácil que te arrebatan la vida de la persona que tú amas, de tu compañera de casa. A mí en ese momento ver a mi esposa en mis brazos ya sin vida llena de sangre. Sentí que arrancaron todo de mí,” Velazquez said. (“It’s not easy when the person you love—your partner at home—is taken from you just like that. For me, at that moment, seeing my wife in my arms, already lifeless, covered in blood, I felt like they tore everything from me.”)
Whitestown Police say Perez worked for a cleaning crew and had the wrong address. Police say they came to a home in the Heritage subdivision after they received a call for a possible home invasion. When they arrived, police say they found Perez on the front porch of the home dead.
Police say they later found out the woman never entered the home. Velazquez witnessed it all just steps away.
“Yo pido justicia porque la persona que hizo eso no creo que no está bien de la cabeza,” he said. (“I ask for justice because the person that did this is not right in the head.”)
Perez leaves behind her four children, ranging in age from 17 years old to 11 months old.
“No es posible que él está libre mientras que los niños están sufriendo con su dolor por sus madre,” Velazquez said. (“It’s not possible that he is free, while the children are suffering with their pain for their mother.”)
Perez’s cousin, Wilmer Alvarez, wants to know why the shooter couldn’t just injure her instead of taking her life.
“Si él estaba en amenaza por lo menos si tanto hubiera sido el coraje dispararle en una pierna, inmovilizarla,” he said. (“If he was so threatened, at the very least, if he was that angry, he could have shot her in the leg, immobilized her.”)
The entire family wants justice so they can find some peace.
“Lo único que la familia exige es justicia para ese cobarde, porque ese cobarde es una de las peores personas que puede haber aquí,” said Alvarez. (“The only thing the family is demanding is justice for that coward, because that coward is one of the worst kinds of people there can be here.”)
The family says Perez was a hard worker, good mother and always attended church.
“Muy triste por ella porque ha sido una buena mujer, ha sido una mujer luchadora,” Velazquez said. (“Very sad for her, because she was a good woman, she was a fighter.”)
A family mourning their beloved mother, wife and cousin looking for answers.
Police in Whitestown say this is an active open investigation. They plan to give an update on this case sometime next week.
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