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Law enforcement officials in the state are considering possible criminal charges against a resident who reportedly shot and killed a female after she accidentally arrived to the incorrect address where she believed assigned to clean a home.

Officers found Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez, 32 years old, dead early Wednesday morning at the entrance of a residence in a suburban town, an area of approximately 10,000 residents outside Indianapolis.

She was part of a cleaning team that had gone to the wrong address, according to police in a press statement.

Authorities have not publicly named the person who fired, but police submitted their findings from the probe to Kent Eastwood, the local district attorney, on Friday afternoon.

This case will highlight Indiana’s “castle doctrine” laws, which permit residents to use lethal force to stop what they reasonably believe is an unlawful intrusion into their dwelling.

But the shooting has stunned the community. Rios Perez’s husband, Mauricio Velazquez, told WRTV that he was present with her at the home’s entrance but didn’t realize she had been shot until she fell into his arms, injured. On a online donation site, her sibling mentioned that Rios Perez was a parent to four children.

Thirty-one states have comparable statutes like Indiana’s on the books, as reported by the national legislative research group.

In comparable incidents in other states, authorities have filed criminal charges against people who used a firearm outside their homes, such as a guilty plea by an elderly man who shot a Black teenager after the youth came to his door by mistake. In New York, a person was found guilty of homicide for killing a woman in a vehicle who entered his property in error.

This tragic event highlights ongoing debates about stand-your-ground statutes and their application in everyday situations.