WORCESTER, Mass. (WPRI) — The Worcester County District Attorney’s Office is investigating the death of a Massachusetts State Police recruit.

 

Investigators say 25-year old Enrique Delgado-Garcia died after becoming unresponsive during a boxing training exercise.

 

He was hit in the head, which knocked him out for ten minutes.

 

Delgado-Garcia was then rushed to the hospital, but sadly died.

 

A former academy instructor says that the boxing exercise is something that happens later on in training, to help prepare recruits if something like that every arose.

 

“The last thing we would want is for a recruit, graduate and go out into the real world and have never been in a confrontation while they’ve now been issued a firearm, pepper spray, a baton,” said Todd McGee, a former MSP academy instructor.

 

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