Jose Israel Fuentes Peraza was 33 and living in Kansas City, Missouri, when he was struck by a stray bullet on July 21, 2021. A Salvadoran native raised between El Salvador and Mexico, he had moved to the United States and by the summer of 2021 ran his own remodeling company. Friends and family described him as kind, humorous, a devoted husband to his wife Sarah, and a father to his daughter Belen who he hoped to show the world through travel.

After being critically wounded by gunfire in an incident in which he was not involved, he was hospitalized and treated for a week. He died of his injuries on July 28, 2021. The Kansas City Police Department investigated the shooting; no suspect has been publicly identified or taken into custody in connection with his death in the years after the incident.