WORCESTER – The funeral for Massachusetts State Police recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia will be held next weekend.
Massachusetts State Police recruit funeral
According to his obituary , a wake will be held Friday evening at the Mercadante Funeral Home in Worcester from 4 to 8 p.m. The funeral service will be there on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Delgado-Garcia will be laid to rest in Hope Cemetery in Worcester.
He died on Friday, September 13, a day after he was critically hurt during a boxing training exercise at the Massachusetts State Police Academy in New Braintree, according to WBZ-TV I-Team sources. Delgado-Garcia was just 25 years old.
The I-Team learned he was sworn in as a trooper in his final hours and he will receive full State Police honors.
Enrique Delgado-Garcia death investigation
Worcester County District Attorney Joe Early Jr. promised an outside investigation because Delgado-Garcia worked in his office as a victim witness advocate for more than a year. No independent agency has been publicly named yet to take the case.