The Worcester County District Attorney, where recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia once worked, has declined to handle the investigation.

Citing a conflict of interest, Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said Monday his office will not handle the investigation into the death of a Massachusetts State Police recruit injured during a training exercise last week, as the young man previously worked for the DA’s office.

The Massachusetts State Police have suspended full-contact boxing training activities among recruits until further notice after a trainee died

UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester a day earlier. He had become unresponsive during a boxing exercise for trainees. In a statement Sunday evening, state police said the program was suspended until further notice as the academy has been reviewing the defensive-tactics program since Delgado-Garcia's death.

A prominent Massachusetts attorney has been named to lead an independent investigation into the death of a trooper trainee who died while training at the Massachusetts State Police academy.