On August 15, 1973, United Farm Workers (UFW) picket captain Nagi Daifullah was killed by a Kern County Sheriff’s Department Deputy for his participation in the 1973 California grape strike. Nagi Daifullah tried to run away from Deputy Gilbert Cooper, but he was chased down and attacked with a long five-cell metal flashlight. The blow to his head severed his spinal cord from his skull. Two deputies then dragged Daifullah sixty feet to a gutter and arrested workers who tried to help him. He died at the age of 24 years old. César Chávez called for a fast and funeral march, but two days later, on August 17, 1973, nonviolent striker Juan de la Cruz was killed on the UFW picket line by a strikebreaker firing from a truck. The strikebreakers, Ernest Baclig and Bayani Advincula, were Filipino farm workers from Dalton Anderson Ranch. The strikebreakers and strikers exchanged insults, leading to the strikers throwing rocks at the strikebreakers’ truck. Bayani Advincula then grabbed a .22 caliber rifle and fired into the crowd. Juan de la Cruz saved his wife Maximina’s life by pushing her down to the ground, but he was struck below the heart by one of five bullets fired. He died at the age of 60 years old. Daifullah’s funeral had ten thousand people and de la Cruz’s had six thousand people. After the funerals, César Chávez told the strikers that the Executive Board unanimously voted to suspend the strike and that the strikers’ contracts would be won back through the ballot and boycott. The strikers wanted to continue to fight on the picket line.