The Massachusetts State Police held its graduation ceremony Wednesday, where they paid tribute to a trooper recruit who was supposed to graduate but was killed​ during a training exercise at the academy.

Garcia's death has roiled the state’s law enforcement community, and his family has demanded to know how he could have died during training.

Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., whose office would typically investigate the death, stepped aside from the case, citing Delgado-Garcia's time as a victim-witness advocate for the office.

The graduation of the 90th Recruit Training Troop is set for 11 a.m. at the DCU Center in Worcester. The new troopers completed 25 weeks of training at the State Police Academy in New Braintree, but it was there that Delgado-Garcia suffered a serious injury during a boxing exercise and died the next day.

The newest class of Massachusetts State Police officers will graduate Wednesday in Worcester, Massachusetts, weeks after the death of a trainee. Trooper Enrique Delgado-Garcia, 25, died following a boxing exercise at the State Police Academy in New Braintree. Internal and independent investigations are now underway.

(WJAR) — The Massachusetts State Police are set to graduate their 90th recruit training troop on Wednesday. The event will be held at the DCU Center in Worcester at 11 a.m. This comes a week after the new superintendent of the state police, Col. Geoffrey Noble, was sworn in. He's a native of Rhode Island.

A large law enforcement presence has turned out in Worcester to honor a state police recruit who died after becoming unresponsive during a training exercise.

Friends and family of a state police recruit who died during training protested outside their graduation ceremony, demand to know how he died

Holding signs demanding truth and chanting for justice, several dozen people gathered Wednesday outside a graduation ceremony for Massachusetts State Police cadets demanding an explanation of how