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Senior Trooper

Craig Antony Gaines

Florida Highway Patrol — Tallahassee, FL

Veteran → Illness

End of Watch September 19, 2025

Age 58

Tour of Duty 27 yrs

The Vigil Panel 184 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 53

Incident

Senior Trooper Craig Gaines passed away from complications related to a leg fracture he received while providing lead security detail for the head coach of the Florida A&M Football Team on September 9, 2025.

During the game against Florida Atlantic University at the FAU Stadium, located at 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton, a player unintentionally ran into Trooper Gaines at the end of a play, fracturing his leg. While recovering from his injury, he began to feel ill and called for assistance. On September 19, 2025, despite life-saving measures, Trooper Gaines succumbed to medical complications stemming from his leg injury.

Trooper Gaines was a United States Navy veteran and had served with the Florida Highway Patrol for 17 years. He previously served with the Havana Police Department and the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, three children, parents, two brothers, and grandchildren.

In Our Keeping

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Added to badge.nw: August 2, 2026
Last updated: August 2, 2026

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Senior Trooper Gaines gave the Florida Highway Patrol 27 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Florida. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Florida Highway Patrol

Type Highway Patrol

Location Tallahassee, FL

Platform Identity fhp.fl.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 19, 2025

Tour of Duty 27 yrs

Age 58

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Cause Detail Duty related illness

Military Service

Craig Antony Gaines served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Senior Trooper Craig Antony Gaines is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In FL, 81 of 1,008 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 8% of this state's fallen. That is 8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Florida Highway Patrol, 5 of 54 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 9.3% of this agency's fallen.

Florida Highway Patrol

of 54 officers

9.3% Illness

FL — Statewide

of 1,008 officers

8% Illness

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Illness