Luis Gerardo Perrett, 24, was shot and killed on the night of April 14, 2018, in the parking lot outside the AMC Gulf Pointe 30 theater in Houston. He had been there with his girlfriend, Priscilla Martinez, and was struck as the couple were leaving.

Houston police identified 22-year-old Adrian Mondragon as the primary suspect, saying the shooting was linked to a dispute involving Mondragon’s ex-girlfriend, who was with Perrett that night. Investigators gathered witness statements and surveillance footage from the theater’s parking lot and later arrested and charged Mondragon with murder. Court proceedings followed, with the prosecution presenting motive and actions from the scene and the defense arguing self-defense; the jury returned a guilty verdict and Mondragon received a lengthy prison term.

Perrett was born October 12, 1993, in Houston and is survived by his father Juan Ignacio Perrett; his mother Maria Guadalupe Sanchez and her husband Cruz Sanchez; his girlfriend Priscilla Martinez; his son Luis Gerardo Perrett, Jr.; his sister Thalia Perrett; and his grandmothers Gerarda Salinas and Carmen Castillo.