On 29 February 2020, Luis Alfonso Mendoza, aged 55, was killed in a murder–suicide in Mexico City at 604 Balboa Street. The actor was accompanied by his wife, fellow voice actress Lourdes Adame, and his brother-in-law, Jorge Adame, who were also killed in the same incident.[4][5][6]
According to local media, the incident was due to "a quarrel for a property" with the attacker, José Mario Chen Martínez. Such quarrel allegedly involved the building where Mendoza's dubbing academy ArtSpot is located. Mendoza and the Adame siblings rented the place in 1995 to found ArtSpot; however, the conflict began when the building's owner died. Chen Martínez assured that he was supposed to have inherited it, which was not possible due to the lack of a testamentary document that would have proved it. In the meantime, he sued Mendoza and the Adame siblings of real estate lease and making apocryphal documents to strip him of his property. Thus, on 29 February 2020, after years of quarreling without a case winner, Chen Martínez committed the crime, firing nine shots, before shooting himself in the head. He initially failed in this suicide attempt, but died four hours later at the Xoco Hospital, aged 52.[7][8][9]
