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A Texas police cadet with Utah roots — who died Dec. 1 after falling ill during his final physical training exercise — was buried Saturday in Idaho.

Cadet Christopher Murray, 31, the father of a young daughter whose wife was expecting a second child, had been hospitalized since Nov. 16, according to the Star-Telegram in Frisco, Texas.

His body was flown on Tuesday to Salt Lake City, from where it was escorted by a police procession to Newdale, Idaho, near Rexburg, for funeral services and interment.

Murray suffered a "medical emergency" during the Nov. 16 police academy training exercises, the Star-Telegram reported, and died in a Texas hospital on Dec. 1.

A You Caring fundraising page for Murray said he was being treated for a rare disease called rhabdomyolysis, in which muscles break down and release a protein into the blood that damages the kidneys. He had "apparently been toughing through the early symptoms," but passed out after he finished the training exercises.

An obituary in the Rexburg Standard Journal said Murray was born in Salt Lake City to Dick and Jody Murray. He graduated from Murray High School in 2003 and served a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tacoma, Wash.

He married Hailey Klingler on April 25, 2008, in the Rexburg Idaho Temple.

After moving to Fort Worth, Texas, in 2011, Murray worked three years for the Frisco police as a 911 dispatcher.

Murray started in the Frisco police academy in July, the Star-Telegram said. His obituary says that he graduated, in absentia, from the academy on Nov. 18.