{"id":219794,"date":"2025-04-02T21:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219794"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:37:08","slug":"community-rallies-to-support-georgia-troopers-family-after-5-year-old-daughters-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219794","title":{"rendered":"Community Rallies to Support Georgia Trooper&#8217;s Family After 5-Year-Old Daughter&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Georgia State Trooper and his wife are facing an unimaginable loss \u2014 and fellow officers are now stepping up to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 28th, Sgt. Royce Zah and his wife Brittany lost their 5-year-old daughter, Navi, following a sudden medical illness. Despite the efforts of doctors at Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, Navi died surrounded by family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sgt. Zah is a 13-year veteran of the Georgia State Patrol and is described by colleagues as a respected leader \u2014 and a devoted family man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the Georgia Trooper Chapter of the Police Benevolent Association and the Police Benevolent Foundation are asking for the public\u2019s help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A donation page has been set up to assist the Zah family with funeral expenses, time away from work, and other unforeseen costs that come with such a heartbreaking loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials say 100 percent of the money raised will go directly to the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make a donation, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pbfi.networkforgood.com\/projects\/249612-sergeant-royce-zah-recovery-fund?fbclid=IwY2xjawJalIVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYyo0ZsvuzmJ2zFfVmzrXSPeU_2tfP-fwHevS8nE2v3odPOdcgJLqgCLZA_aem_ji-4AfrFLwFU6GjTcONxDw\">https:\/\/pbfi.networkforgood.com\/projects\/249612-sergeant-royce-zah-recovery-fund?fbclid=IwY2xjawJalIVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYyo0ZsvuzmJ2zFfVmzrXSPeU_2tfP-fwHevS8nE2v3odPOdcgJLqgCLZA_aem_ji-4AfrFLwFU6GjTcONxDw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=32]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Georgia State Trooper and his wife are facing an unimaginable loss \u2014 and fellow officers are now stepping up to help. On March 28th, Sgt. Royce Zah and his wife Brittany lost their 5-year-old daughter, Navi, following a sudden medical illness. Despite the efforts of doctors at Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, Navi died surrounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":219795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4295],"tags":[17592,8704,17591],"class_list":["post-219794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-heroes","tag-brittany","tag-georgia-state-patrol","tag-royce-zah","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}