Off-duty California State Trooper Jesus Magdaleno Jr, 33, an eight-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol, was in Las Vegas for bachelor party and was killed trying to stop carjacking after he jumped into his stolen truck and was thrown when it crashed

• Jesus Magdaleno Jr, 33, an eight-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol, was in Las Vegas to celebrate his bachelor party
• He was preparing to get married next month
• The thief took off while Megdaleno and his brother-in-law Felix Cruz were loading the truck and preparing to return home
• Both men were thrown from the bed of the truck when the carjacker crashed into an SUV
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An off-duty California Highway Patrol officer in Las Vegas for his bachelor party has been killed trying to stop a carjacker who stop his pickup truck from a car valet on the Strip. 

Jesus Manuel Magdaleno Jr. was loading his suitcases into his Ford F-150 with his brother-in-law Felix Cruz to return home on Sunday, when a man jumped into the running vehicle and took off with Cruz still in the bed. 

Magaleno, 33, ran after the pickup, shouted that he was a CHP officer and jumped into the cargo bed with his sister's husband, Mr Cruz, while the driver sped wildly away from the Flamingo hotel-casino, according to a police report.

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