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GoFundMe to support Mass. State Police trooper's family blows past $15k goal
A GoFundMe set up for the family of a Massachusetts State Police trooper who died last week has blown past its goal.
The campaign for Enrique Delgado-Garcia’s family originally had a goal of raising $15,000. As of 3 p.m. on Tuesday, it’s received $26,193.
The family received one donation of $1,000, followed by four $500 donations, three $200 donations and 10 $100 donations.
“We appreciate everyone’s prayers!” organizer and Delgado-Garcia’s mother Sandra Garcia wrote. “Humbled and thankful for everyone’s concerns, donations, and contributions as we mourn the unexpected loss of our dearest and beloved son, brother, cousin, and friend, Enrique! May God bless all who have shown care, concern, and support in any way during this time of irreparable loss!”
Delgado-Garcia, 25, of Worcester, died after becoming unresponsive during a defensive tactics training exercise at the Massachusetts State Police Academy in New Braintree, state police said previously.
“We know it was in a boxing ring, it was videotaped,” Worcester County District Attorney and Delgado-Garcia’s former employer Joseph Early Jr. told reporters on Monday.
Delgado-Garcia, part of the 90th Recruit Training Troop, was set to graduate on Oct. 9 at the DCU Center, state police said. A police department commissioner delivered the trainee’s oath of office hours before Delgado-Garcia died.
On Saturday night, Delgado-Garcia’s body was moved from the hospital to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Westfield, state police said. He was accompanied by a procession.
“He was a dedicated victim witness advocate who joined our office, and he was with us for about a year and a half before he left our office to fulfill his lifelong dream of joining the Massachusetts State Police,” Early said Monday.
Donors to the GoFundMe page shared their condolences to the family. One commenter said she knew Delgado-Garcia through her daughter when the two attended the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
“He came and volunteered to be Santa at the tutoring program I ran at a homeless shelter in New Bedford,” she wrote. “He was such a genuine soul. I am so sorry that this happened to him. It is so wrong. Please take solace in knowing that you raised a wonderful human being who was taken from us way too soon.”
Another commenter who said she was a former police officer wrote that she “cannot comprehend any sort of ‘training exercise’ that would put a police recruit at risk of serious injury or death.”
While Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to Early’s office continue to investigate Delgado-Garcia’s death, Early said his office will not have a role in the investigation due to a conflict of interest. He added that it would not be appropriate for another district attorney’s office to handle the matter.
On Tuesday, State Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell said she was “in conversation” with Early’s office about who will have jurisdiction over the investigation. She told GBH Boston that “it was possible her office could take on the investigation, or that it could be assigned to another county district attorney elsewhere in the state.”
She said she hoped there is a decision soon, but it is complicated since her office and county prosecutors all have State Police personnel assigned to them.
Campbell told the station that she was “talking to everyone.”
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Woman dead after van hits 2 people in Brockton, Massachusetts
Two people were hit by a van in Brockton, Massachusetts Thursday morning and one of them died.
It happened just after 6:40 a.m. near the intersection of North Main Street and Livingston Road. The van stopped after the crash.
When police arrived, they found two people in the road, a man and a woman, both in their 40’s. The woman died at the scene. The man was rushed to a nearby hospital.
Their names have not been made public.
There was debris scattered across the pavement and there was a large dent on the van’s hood.
It’s not clear yet what caused the crash or if the driver will be charged. State and local police shut down the intersection for their investigation.
Brockton, Massachusetts is 24 miles south of Boston.
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Massachusetts arrested over sword-wielding, threats to Donald Trump | The Jerusalem Post
A Massachusetts man accused of making threats on Facebook to kill United States President Donald Trump was arrested on Wednesday after a stand-off with law enforcement in which the man began brandishing a sword.
Andrew Emerald, 45, was charged in an eight-count indictment filed in federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts, over a string of threatening posts he allegedly made last year, including one in which he vowed to travel to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida if the president was not dead by 2026.
“Either Trump is dead and in the ground by 2026, or I am hunting him down and putting him there,” Emerald wrote in another social media post in May 2025, according to the indictment.
A lawyer for Emerald did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
His Facebook posts came to the FBI’s attention as a result of a tip from a citizen who had warned Emerald that it was a crime to threaten the life of the president, according to documents prosecutors filed seeking to have him detained.
Emerald replied that he had been threatening Trump online for a decade and that, if law enforcement came after him, “I’ll kill them until they kill me,” according to an affidavit from an FBI agent.
When the FBI on Wednesday went to his residence in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to execute an arrest warrant, Emerald refused to come out before eventually stepping into view brandishing a long, metallic sword, the affidavit said.
The FBI agent said Emerald had previously referenced his sword in Facebook posts threatening Trump, including in July 2025, when he said he would stick it through the president’s throat.
Emerald told agents they would need to shoot him before locking his door, the FBI agent recounted.
Local police and an FBI crisis negotiation team were called in. He finally agreed to be arrested after a police officer reached him on his phone, the FBI agent’s affidavit said.
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