Over 1,000 officers gather for fallen trooper
http://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2017/01/05/over-1000-officers-gather-fallen-trooper/96205332/

ALTOONA - More than 1,000 Pennsylvania State Police troopers and officers from around the country came together Thursday morning to honor the life of Trooper Landon E. Weaver, killed in the line of duty after only about year on the force.

The 23-year-old trooper from Martinsburg was investigating a protection-from-abuse violation in Juniata Township, Huntingdon County, when he was shot and killed the evening of Dec. 30, according to state police. The suspect, Jason Robison, 32, Hesston, was killed the morning after threatening officers during an encounter at a vacant mobile home not far from the place where Weaver was killed.

Weaver was remembered as a hero and Gov. Tom Wolf expressed gratitude for Weaver's service. Outside, several people held a large American flag on a hill overlooking the center."He joined the state police to help to make the lives of all Pennsylvanians safer, more secure, better," Wolf said in remarks released by his office because the funeral was closed to news media. "He could have done a lot of things - he was a talented person - but he chose to serve us."Wolf said Weaver's death "leaves a hole in the lives of so many people" - including his wife, Macy, his parents and his friends.

Weaver graduated from Central High in Martinsburg in 2012 and attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania before starting at the state police academy about a year ago. He and his wife married in June, when Weaver also joined a patrol unit in Huntingdon."Landon's comrades in the Pennsylvania State Police lost a brother. And all of us lost a hero whose purpose was to serve us," Wolf said.

 

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