GSP trooper killed in the line of duty remembered during processional

Georgia first responders lined up to help family say goodbye to Trooper Jimmy Cenescar Friday.

Cenescar, 28, died in January while working for Georgia State Patrol Jan. 28.

GSP said he was trying to stop a motorcycle driver on the run-on Interstate 85 when his car hit an embankment near SR 317 in Suwanee.

Doctors pronounced him dead at the hospital.

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Hundreds showed up for his funeral at Mt. Paran Church in Northwest Atlanta on Friday before noon.

Troopers carried his American flag-draped casket into the church on horse and buggy.

First responders from around the metro lined Northside Dr. Traffic stopped on I-75 and major roadways while the procession moved from the funeral in Atlanta to burial in Mableton.

Family members told Channel 2′s Courtney Francisco outside the funeral that Cenescar had five siblings and 29 cousins.

At the funeral, one brother told the crowd, “I can still hear his laughter. His voice plays in my head over and over.”

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