Husband of Indiana woman shot dead after going to wrong house said 'they tore everything from me'

Maria Florinda Rios Perez, 32, was killed after she went to the wrong address for a house-cleaning appointment; her family wants the person responsible to face justice.

Surrounded by his children, the husband of a mother of four who was fatally shot in Indiana after arriving at the wrong address for a house-cleaning appointment spoke of his family’s anguish — and demanded the person responsible face justice and be charged in her death.

“Seeing my wife in my arms, already lifeless, covered in blood, I felt like they tore everything from me,” Mauricio Velásquez told Telemundo in Spanish at a memorial for his wife, Maria Florinda Rios Perez, describing the moment after she was shot in front of his eyes.

“It’s very painful and very unfortunate,” he said tearfully, “because they shouldn’t have taken her life away that way.”

Rios Perez, a 32-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, was killed on Wednesday morning after she and her husband mistakenly went to the door of the wrong home in anticipation of a day’s work as house cleaners, her family told NBC News and Telemundo.

Rios Perez was a devoted mother to her four children, the oldest of whom is 17 while the youngest is 11 months old, Velásquez said.