Four MSP Academy staff charged over trooper’s boxing-training death

Four Massachusetts State Police Academy staffers, including Sgt. Jennifer Penton, were charged with involuntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily injury in Trooper Enrique Delgado-Garcia’s 2024 death after a boxing training session. A nine‑month grand jury investigation led by independent counsel David Meier found Delgado-Garcia suffered concussion-like symptoms before fatal head injuries the next day, prompting academy reforms and an outside assessment of training culture. The suspects were summoned to court rather than arrested; Delgado-Garcia, 25, died Sept. 13, 2024, with the death later listed as accidental.