Porvenir Massacre

When

28 Jan 1918

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

15

Coordinates

30.42° N, 104.84° W

Description

1918 massacre of fifteen unarmed Mexican American boys and men in Porvenir, Texas

1918 shooting in Texas, US

The Porvenir massacre was an incident on January 28, 1918, outside the village of Porvenir, in Presidio County, Texas, in which Texas Rangers and local ranchers, with the support of US Cavalry, killed 15 unarmed Mexican American boys and men. The Texas Rangers Company B had been sent to the area to stop banditry after the Brite Ranch raid.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Texas, en las afueras de la aldea de Porvenir del condado de Presidio, se lleva a cabo la masacre de Porvenir”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page