Ernesto Carlos Aguilar Vasquez, 32, was shot and killed on November 25, 2020, in Houston, Texas. The shooting took place in the parking lot of a southwest Houston apartment complex during a custody dispute involving his ex-wife, Iluminada Marrerro Perdoma, and her new boyfriend, Leonardo Llanes. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Llanes firing at Vasquez as Vasquez tried to flee, shooting him in the back and then firing additional rounds; Vasquez was left dead in a pool of blood.

After the parking lot shooting, Llanes returned to the apartment and shot Perdoma through a bathroom door where she had barricaded herself. The episode affected Houston’s Cuban community, since all three were Cuban. Llanes, 51, was arrested and charged with capital murder; he later pleaded guilty to two counts of capital murder and received life in prison without the possibility of parole for 30 years. The plea barred appeal of the conviction and sentence and left Vasquez’s young son without both parents.

Did anyone in the community know Vasquez or the family and have information about the events that night?