Brandon Perez was a 15-year-old student at Benito Juarez Community Academy who was shot and killed on December 16, 2022, in Chicago. The shooting occurred at about 2:45 PM just after classes were dismissed while Brandon stood in a plaza under a bridge that connects two wings of the school. He was struck in the head and died at the scene.

The attack also killed 14-year-old Nathan Billegas of Chicago Bulls College Prep and wounded two other teenagers. Investigators arrested 16-year-old Christian Acevedo, a former Benito Juarez student who had been expelled earlier in 2022. Surveillance footage captured Acevedo on campus and nearby, witnesses identified him from images and line-ups, and officers recovered multiple firearms from his bedroom, including weapons modified to fire multiple rounds with one trigger pull.

The motive is described as gang-related.