of the situation outside the residence. As he had done in the previous 1954 raid, he quickly grabbed one of de la Huerta's medical gowns and a doctor's bag where he hid a gun. Agostini leapt over the back wall of de la Huerta's home and entered the back of the nearby Anglo-American Clinic but was surrounded and captured by the National Police Investigations Bureau. While he was held in detention, an argument ensued between the head of the National Police Investigations Bureau, Colonel Orlando Piedra, and the head of the Naval Intelligence Service, Julio S. Laurent over which respective body held jurisdiction over the handling of Agostini. Laurent demanded that Agostini be turned over to him, claiming superior orders. Without waiting for an answer Laurent went to a car and pulled Agostini out. He resisted and Laurent struck him in the face with the end of his submachine gun, causing Agostini to fall and break his right cheekbone. Laurent and Sergeant Heriberto Izquierdo then executed him. Forensic autopsy reports documented twenty-three perforations for close-range shots of less than one meter. Response Agostini's death sparked public outrage against the Batista regime and was a significant escalation in mobilizing the Batista opposition. The event was widely reported by national Cuban newspapers, including extensive coverage from the widely circulated La Calle for several days following the news. With the mounting press coverage and social responses, Agostini's burial on Saturday 11 June would become a political event. It was headed by the leaders of the FEU along with dozens of militants from the Civic Front of Marti Women. Many participants in attendance sang the National Anthem at his grave at the time of burial. Rising Revolutionary leader and future dictator Fidel Castro, then a young lawyer who was recently released from incarceration, seized on the event to make the case against Batista's regime to the public. He penned an article titled "Frente al terror y frente al crimen" ("Facing Terror and Facing Crime") that was published on 11 June. In it he wrote "Jorge Agostini was assassinated, there is no doubt." He went on to call the act "monstrous political assassination" and described Agostini as "the new martyr of the struggle for national liberation." After making his case against Batista, Castro closed by calling for national mobilization in favor of his own Revolution as "the only correct tactic." Other anti-Batista figures would also