Organizing Committee, which wanted him to dedicate his efforts to writing and reporting. On 22 December, some 30 revolutionaries led by Guerrero entered Mexico through Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, attacked a hacienda, sequestered a train, and advanced toward the south, destroying the railway bridges as they passed. At Estación Guzmán, Chihuahua, they were joined by another 20 insurgents; there, on 25 December, they split into two groups, the larger one led by Guerrero and the other by Prisciliano Silva. Guerrero took the town of Corralitos on 27 December and, the following day (unsuccessfully) demanded the surrender of Casas Grandes. During the night of 29 December, he led his forces on an attack on Janos and, by the following morning, the town was in rebel hands. That same day, however, Práxedis Guerrero was killed. The circumstances of his death are unclear, and there are at least three different versions of the incident. Ethel Duffy Turner claims he was shot by one of his men who confused Guerrero with a spy as he was gaining higher ground to conduct reconnaissance; Martínez Nuñez says Guerrero was shot in the right eye while climbing onto a roof to repel an attack by federal forces; while Enrique Flores Magón reports that Guerrero was shot in the forehead while explaining the ideals of the PLM to the assembled townsfolk. Legacy In Chihuahua, Práxedis Guerrero has a town, a municipality and a school that honors his name. Another settlement in the state of Durango also bears his name. See also Magonism References External links Artículos de combate, Chantal López & Omar Cortés (eds.), 1977. Weaving the Past: Journey of Discovery, Documental by Walter Dominguez about Práxedis Guerrero. People of the Mexican Revolution Mexican journalists Male journalists Mexican anarchists Magonists Writers from Guanajuato People from León, Guanajuato 1882 births 1910 deaths 1882 in Mexico 1910 in Mexico 20th-century journalists