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The body of a Guatemalan woman who was murdered while cleaning the wrong house in Indiana earlier this month. United States of America She returned to her country on Sunday.
Maria Florinda Rios Perez, 32, a mother of four, was murdered on the front porch of a home in Whitestown. indianapolisOn 5 November.
Late Sunday night, his mother Wilma Pérez and other relatives received his body at the capital’s international airport and planned to fly it to his hometown of Cabrican, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west. guatemala city,
Prosecutors last week charged Kurt Anderson of Whitestown with voluntary manslaughter in connection with her death. Anderson’s trial was scheduled to begin March 30, according to online court records. On Friday, a judge set bail at $25,000 and ordered him to surrender his passport.
According to court documents, Rios and her husband were part of a house cleaning crew and accidentally went to Anderson’s house. As he tried to open Anderson’s door with a key provided by his company, Anderson shot through the door without warning. The bullet hit Rios in the head. Her husband was not injured.
Anderson told investigators that she heard someone trying to open her front door and thought someone was trying to break into her home.
On weekends, women in Cabrican cooked food for friends and relatives who would attend the wake and burial. At her parents’ home, flowers and photographs of Rios decorated an altar. Cabrican is nestled in a valley where most of the inhabitants are Mam, an indigenous Maya People.
Rios’s sister, 19-year-old Yemi Paola Rios Pérez, said Maria left Guatemala with her two daughters two years ago, hiring a smuggler to take them to the U.S. after she was told that adults accompanying children were only being allowed entry, her sister said.
“It took a lot of work with the girls,” he said. They went to Indiana because his five siblings and his father were there.
Yemei recalled the last conversation she had with her sister a few days before she died.
“She was really happy because there was only a week left for her son to turn 1 and she was preparing everything to celebrate the boy’s birthday,” Yemi said.