The PA State Trooper Stationed In King Of Prussia Who Died From COVID-19 Set To Be Buried

PENNSYLVANIA — A state police motorcade was scheduled Monday to take the body of a state trooper who had died from COVID-19 to a burial plot in Northwestern Pennsylvania.

The body of Trooper Dung X. Martinez was scheduled to be taken by a police escort to Hope Cemetery in Elk Creek Township for burial, according to a news report on GoErie.com.

Martinez, 57, had been assigned to Troop T in King of Prussia at the time of his death, which occurred on Oct. 21 after a hospitalization for COVID-19.

The report on GoErie.com said that the police escort was scheduled to pick up Martinez's body after it flew into Erie International Airport.

Patch previously reported on Martinz's death, which was announced by both the Pennsylvania State Police and the State Troopers Association, which is the union representing troopers.

Martinez, who had gone to school in Montgomery County, was a state trooper for more than two decades at the time of his death.

Martinez had previously won an award for his participation in the manhunt for fugitive cop killer Eric Frein in the Pocono Mountain region of Pennsylvania.