1/6/17
by News Department on 01/06/17Slain State Trooper laid to rest...
Hundreds paid tribute Thursday to a young Pennsylvania state trooper killed in the line of duty after only about a year on the force.
At a funeral at the Blair County Convention Center, 23 year old Trooper Landon Weaver was remembered as a hero and Gov. Tom Wolf expressed gratitude for Weaver's service.
Afterward, a motorcade with hundreds of police vehicles escorted a silver hearse carrying Weaver's casket to a cemetery 20 miles away for the burial.
Weaver was shot Dec. 30 at a home in Hesston while investigating a report of a domestic protection violation. Police said Jason Robison killed the trooper and police later tracked down Robison and fatally shot him when he threatened officers and failed to follow their orders.
