Juan Pablo Pernalete Llovera (28 December 1996[1] – 26 April 2017) was a student and basketball player killed during the 2017 Venezuelan protests.
On 24 May the Attorney General of Venezuela, Luisa Ortega Díaz, declared that an investigation by the Public Ministry concluded that Pernalete died as the result of the impact in his chest of a tear gas canister fired by a National Guardsman.
[4] The following day, students marched for two hours from the Universidad Metropolitana to the place in Altamira Square where Juan Pablo Pernalete was killed, after holding a mass in the university in his honor.
[6] On 24 May the Attorney General of Venezuela, Luisa Ortega Díaz, declared that an investigation by the Public Ministry concluded that Pernalete died as the result of the impact in his chest of a tear gas canister fired by a National Guardsman.
[10] On 11 June 2017 Juan Pablo's father, José Pernalete, declared in a public ceremony that one of his son's dreams was to be a player for the American National Basketball Association (NBA), and that said league sent them a recognition in which they sent their solidarity for his death.