Roberto Valencia Teneria was 46 when he was shot and killed in Mishawaka, Indiana, on the night of September 5, 2015. A Hispanic man who had moved from Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1990, he was described by those who knew him as hardworking and willing to help others. Teneria was at the 331 Inn on Union Street when an altercation with another patron, 64-year-old Richard Bonnett, escalated as the bar neared closing. Bonnett produced a gun and fired a single shot; Teneria died at the scene.

Richard Bonnett was arrested and charged in connection with the shooting. He pleaded guilty to reckless homicide, a plea that characterized the death as resulting from reckless actions rather than an intentional killing, and in December 2015 a judge sentenced Bonnett to six years in prison.