Funeral held for FHP Trooper Zachary Fink
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (WFLA) — A funeral service honoring Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Zachary Fink was held Monday morning.
Fink was killed on Feb. 2 while pursuing a suspect who was driving on the wrong lanes on I-95 in Port St. Lucie.
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Both Fink and a semi-truck driver died when their vehicles collided.
“Trooper Fink is a hero,” said Dave Kerner, director of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, on the morning of Fink’s death. “Trooper Fink died in the line of duty. As his stepmother relayed to me, since he was 6 years old, all he wanted to do was help people.”
Michael Anthony Addison, 30, of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea was charged in the deaths of the trooper and the truck driver.
According to state officials, Fink was the 53rd state trooper killed in the line of duty. The 26-year-old was survived by his parents and his fiancée.
You can watch the funeral service in the player above.
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