CANFIELD, Ohio (WOIO) - The funeral for an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper killed while helping the driver of a disabled semi in Canfield, will take place on Wednesday at Youngstown State University.

Trooper Nicholas P. Cayton was fatally struck on State Route 11 in Mahoning County around 11:50 a.m. on Oct. 16.

Trooper Cayton responded to the scene for a disabled semi tractor-trailer stopped in the right lane.

As Trooper Cayton was sitting in his cruiser, with the emergency lights activated, the driver of a second truck rear-ended him.

The impact then pushed the cruiser into the back of the disabled tractor-trailer, and also struck that truck driver Jesus Herrera Vasquez, who was standing outside of his truck.

Trooper Cayton, 40, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Vasquez was taken

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