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The assassination of José Calvo Sotelo took place in Madrid, Spain, in the early hours of Monday, 13 July 1936, during the Second Spanish Republic. A group comprising Assault Guards and socialist militia members, led by a Civil Guard captain in civilian clothes, arrived at opposition leader José Calvo Sotelo's home under the pretext of escorting him to the General Directorate of Security. During the journey, socialist militant Luis Cuenca Estevas shot him twice in the back of the head and later delivered the body to the Almudena Cemetery morgue. The murder was in retaliation for the killing of the Assault Guard officer José Castillo, a Socialist sympathizer and militia trainer, earlier that day. Calvo Sotelo, a prominent monarchist, became the most significant and final high-profile victim of the political violence that surged following the Popular Front's victory in the February 1936 elections, which resulted in 384 deaths.
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