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 the

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