diff --git a/Samples/simpleCudaGraphs/simpleCudaGraphs.cu b/Samples/simpleCudaGraphs/simpleCudaGraphs.cu
index d728562c..896bc19e 100644
--- a/Samples/simpleCudaGraphs/simpleCudaGraphs.cu
+++ b/Samples/simpleCudaGraphs/simpleCudaGraphs.cu
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ void cudaGraphsUsingStreamCapture(float *inputVec_h, float *inputVec_d,
   checkCudaErrors(cudaStreamDestroy(stream1));
   checkCudaErrors(cudaStreamDestroy(stream2));
   checkCudaErrors(cudaStreamDestroy(streamForGraph));
+  checkCudaErrors(cudaEventDestroy(reduceKernelEvent));
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {