LYNN COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF NEWS)- Lynn county sheriff Abraham Vega died Saturday after battling the Coronavirus.
Vega was diagnosed with COVID-19 recently and was put on a ventilator for nine days at a hospital in Lubbock before being airlifted to Dallas on July 7th.
No more information on his death is available at this time.
Vega became sheriff of Lynn County in 2016 and recently won the republican primary on his way to re-election later this year.
WFAA-TV reports Lynn County currently has 52 cases of COVID-19 with only 14 currently active and 38 recoveries.
