Cika wannan jumla:
Tashin hankali ya barke a watan Yunin 1903, Turkawa daga Desovo, yayin da suka fahimci cewa Sokolović yana tare da 'yan fashin sa, sun jira a waje da gidan Sokol har sai ya dawo gida daga Prilep kuma suka kashe shi. Sun dauki hancinsa da idanunsa da aka yanke tare da su a matsayin alamar fansa. Sokolović ya kasance a lokacin a Bulgaria, a matsayin wani ɓangare na ƙungiyar Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) na sojoji 400<unk>500, waɗanda kwamandojin su Sotir Atanasov, Atanas Murdzhev, Dimitar Ganchev da Nikola Pushkarov. Da ya ji labarin mutuwar mahaifinsa, ya tattara ƙungiya kuma ya juya don ya biya mahaifinsa, amma ya isa Vardar ne kawai, wanda sojojin Ottoman suka yanke. Kungiyoyin da aka hallaka sun gudu zuwa Bulgaria da Serbia. Sokolović kuma yana buƙatar barin, kuma ya aika da wasiƙa zuwa ga ɗan'uwansa tare da ɗan fashi, yana cewa: "Ina kan hanyata don dawo da jini amma akwai askeri da yawa a kan Vardar. Na rama masa [mutuwarsa], amma ban rama masa ba".