30-year-old LA County deputy dies during 120-mile law enforcement relay race

SAN DIMAS, Calif. (KABC) -- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is mourning the decease of a San Dimas lawman who died from a aesculapian exigency during a instrumentality enforcement relay contention successful the Mojave Desert.

The yearly Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay Race has teams from assorted instrumentality enforcement agencies tally 120 miles from Baker, done the desert, to Las Vegas.

The sheriff's section says Deputy Levi Vargas died connected Saturday during the race. He was 30 years old.

The section says Vargas received aesculapian care, but yet passed distant from his injuries. Further details astir what happened were not instantly available.

According to authorities, Vargas joined the section successful 2015 arsenic a custody adjunct and aboriginal graduated from Academy Class 413, serving successful respective assignments earlier landing astatine the San Dimas Station.

"He was known among his colleagues and friends for his professionalism, commitment, and compassion to our communities," the sheriff's section wrote.

Video shows his assemblage being transported from a Las Vegas infirmary to the morgue with a afloat instrumentality enforcement procession.

His household says Vargas volition beryllium flown backmost to Southern California connected Monday.

Deputy Vargas is survived by his wife, parents and siblings.