Late Sunday, what was supposed to be a celebration quickly turned into a tragedy when the Governor of the Michoacan was the victim of an assassination. While the Governor's guards anticipated a threat, it came from the most unlikely of sources; children. The Governor was assaulted by several dozen children, who tied him down while stopping to meet them, and was subsequently shot dead with bows and arrows. After filling him with over 50 arrows, the Governor was declared dead. The children, who the Governor met with while his assistants were talking to community leaders, were also able to get past the guards by trapping them in a nearby house after reporting a false threat.
The Governor was then led to a nearby house. By the time police had arrived the children had fled into a near by corn field. Locals report that none of the children actually lived in the town.
The Governor reportedly very unpopular in this part of Michoacan. As a result, many of the locals have proclaimed the mysterious children as heroes and have come to be known as "The Children of the Corn". One local we spoke to proclaimed that in celebration every year from now on, this day should be commemorated as a holiday where children shall shoot arrows at scarecrows 
