From the LVRJ:
A California highway patrolman in Las Vegas for his bachelor party died after being thrown from his pickup during a carjacking Sunday morning.
The patrolman was the second off-duty officer to be carjacked at a Strip hotel valet in a week.
But Sunday’s ended in the death of Jesus Manuel Magdaleno Jr., a 33-year-old officer with eight years experience at the California Highway Patrol, the last three years at the Visalia, Calif., office as a graveyard shift patrol officer, according to fellow Visalia officer Scott Harris.
He was in town with friends and family to celebrate his upcoming September wedding.
Magdaleno and his friend Felix Brandon Cruz, 31, were loading luggage into the back of a 2009 Ford pickup at the Flamingo Las Vegas valet area about at 11 a.m. The keys were in the ignition and the truck was running when James Robert Montgomery, 29, got in and drove away with Cruz in the bed, according to Las Vegas police.
Magdaleno chased the truck on foot, identified himself as an officer and jumped in as it slowed, according to an arrest report.
A witness from the 17th floor of Bally’s casino told police she heard Magdaleno and Cruz screaming for help as she saw the truck moving at a high rate of speed.
Montgomery headed west on Flamingo Road and ran three red lights before crashing into an SUV at the entrance of the Rio hotel. Cruz and Magdaleno were both thrown from the bed of the truck.
Magdaleno was pronounced dead at the scene. Cruz was taken to University Medical Center in
critical condition. He is not expected to survive his injuries, according to medical personnel. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/california-patrolman-killed-sunday-carjacking-accident
RIP to the officer, prayers for the families, fellow officers and friends involved and hope the other fellow pulls through.
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