A Massachusetts State Police Recruit died Friday, one day after authorities say he became unresponsive and suffered a “medical crisis” during a defensive tactics training exercise.
Enrique Delgado-Garcia, 25, died at a hospital one day after the exercise at the Massachusetts State Police Academy in New Braintree, according to state police.
A state police spokesman told NBC 10 the academy's on-site medical team responded immediately after Delgado-Garcia became unresponsive. They determined that he required urgent medical care and took him to the hospital, where he died.
Delgado-Garcia's family members are demanding answers, saying they don't undertand how a training exercise could have left him with fatal injuries, including severe brain trauma. His mother told NBC10 and Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra that he was hit and injured.
“I don’t understand why it was so rough if it was just training," Sandra Garcia said in Spanish. “I want them to explain it to me, that the state explains to me what happened with my son. … Why did he hit him so hard that it killed him, that it destroyed his brain and broke all of my son’s teeth and he had a neck fracture too, my son.”
