{"id":172980,"date":"2026-02-28T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172980\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:33:14","slug":"watch-live-coverage-of-florida-highway-patrol-troopers-funeral-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172980\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch live coverage of Florida Highway Patrol trooper’s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Florida Highway Patrol is honoring the life and service of Trooper Michael Diego,<\/a> who tragically passed away in the line of duty on Feb. 18, with a video tribute and an online fundraiser to assist his family.<\/p>\n

Diego died during a medical emergency while participating in a competitive process for the Patrol’s Criminal Interdiction Unit at the FHP Training Academy in Gadsden County. The tragedy occurred while Diego was participating in a “a competitive process for the Patrol\u2019s Criminal Interdiction Unit, being held at the FHP Training Academy.”<\/p>\n

He was the 55th Florida state trooper to die in the line of duty. Diego is survived by his mother, sister and his fianc\u00e9. Scroll down for video of the funeral services, and more information on the GoFundMe to help Diego’s family.<\/p>\n

Video of funeral services for Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Michael Diego<\/p>\n

You can watch funeral services for Diego by clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n

Fundraiser for the family of Trooper Michael Diego raises more than $14,000<\/p>\n

“Despite lifesaving efforts, he tragically passed away with his loved ones at his side at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital,” the Gofundme fundraiser states. “All proceeds will go directly to Diego\u2019s family to help them financially through this extremely difficult and painful process. Thank you for all the support during this difficult time.”<\/p>\n

Already, more than $14,000 has been raised toward a $16,000 goal.<\/p>\n

The fundraiser comes as the Florida Highway Patrol shared a solemn video of Diego’s casket being transported back home from Tallahassee to south Florida.<\/p>\n

“From the first mile to the last, Trooper Michael Diego\u2019s brothers and sisters in law enforcement were by his side,” the Florida Highway Patrol wrote in a post. “Thank you to all who helped honor him and bring home.”<\/p>\n

You can find the GoFundMe at www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-memory-of-trooper-michael-diegos-dedication<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Funeral of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Michael Diego live coverage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Highway Patrol is honoring the life and service of Trooper Michael Diego, who tragically passed away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81905,28,30,618,29,24062,77304,82120,77395],"class_list":{"0":"post-172980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-fhp-training-academy","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-highway-patrol","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-funeral-services","14":"tag-michael-diego","15":"tag-the-patrol","16":"tag-trooper-michael-diego"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}