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Law enforcement officials in the state are weighing whether to file charges against a resident who reportedly shot and killed a female after she mistakenly went to the incorrect address where she believed assigned to clean a home.

Officers found the victim, aged 32, deceased just before 7am at the entrance of a home in Whitestown, a community of about 10,000 residents near Indianapolis.

She was part of a cleaning team that had arrived at the wrong address, police stated in a press statement.

Officials did not publicly named the person who fired, but police submitted their findings from the probe to Kent Eastwood, the county prosecutor, on Friday afternoon.

The incident will highlight Indiana’s self-defense statutes, which permit residents to use lethal force to prevent what they genuinely think is an illegal entry into their dwelling.

However the killing has stunned the community. The victim’s spouse, her husband, told WRTV that he was standing with her at the front door but didn’t realize she had been hit until she fell into his arms, injured. On a fundraising page, her sibling mentioned that she was a parent to four children.

A majority of US states have comparable statutes like Indiana’s in place, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In similar cases in other states, authorities have filed criminal charges against people who opened fire outside their homes, including a admission of guilt by an 86-year-old man who fired at a Black teenager after the youth came to his door accidentally. In another state, a person was found guilty of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a woman in a vehicle who entered his property by mistake.

This tragic event underscores continuing discussions surrounding stand-your-ground statutes and how they are applied in real-life scenarios.