At the scene of the accident, Kargola was immediately administered medical attention by staff paramedics. According to initial reports derived from the Rip To The Tip website, Ox was said to be "alert and responding to medics." There was hope in his reported condition.

Despite the prospects of those initial reports, though, which indicated that "he will be okay," as a precautionary measure, paramedics opted to transport Kargola by staff helicopter to the nearby San Felipe hospital for further medical assessment by doctors. But it was there that he succumbed to his injuries, flanked down south of the border by best friends Cameron Steele, Ryan Hagy, Chad Peebles, Ryan Cropley, Rich Niggemann, Mark Moss and Trigger Gumm.

Just last month, aboard a Johnny Campbell Racing Honda CRF450X, Ox teamed with Colton Udall to take his second consecutive win at the SCORE San Felipe 250. Living up to the brute force of his hard-charging nick name, derived from his towering 6-foot, 2-inch stature and brawn 210-pound size, Ox backed that win up with yet another victory the following weekend for the SuperLite Championship Round 2 at Firebird Raceway in Phoenix. And that was just hours after his freestyle motocross (FMX) performance for the Nuclear Cowboyz show in San Diego the night before.

Taking a silver medal in the Best Trick competition at the 2005 Winter X Games, Ox migrated his talents from the FMX world and converged onto short course off-road racing in August 2010 for the Glen Helen Raceway stop of the SuperLite Championship series, following former SuperLite drivers and Metal Mulisha brethren Jeremy "Twitch" Stenberg and Metal Mulisha boss Brian Deegan. Stenberg remains reigning 2010 SuperLite Championship series champion but now competes in a Pro 2 Unlimited truck for Hart & Huntington.

For the Metal Mulisha family of extreme sports athletes, this is the second loss in as many years. Jeremy Lusk passed away in 2009 after an accident that occurred during a freestyle competition in Costa Rica.