The funeral for Trooper Carns was held Friday at 10 a.m. at Parkview Christian Church, 11100 Orland Parkway in Orland Park, Illinois. A private Interment followed. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Trooper Clay Carns Memorial fund.

A funeral will be held for fallen Illinois State Police Trooper Clay Carns, who died in a tragic accident while clearing debris from I-55 near Channahon, and is survived by his parents, wife, two

ORLAND PARK, Ill. - A fallen Illinois State Trooper is being remembered in the suburbs on Thursday. Clay Carns, 35, lost his life while on duty last week. He was killed Dec. 23, just before Christmas Eve, along I-55 near Channahon when he was struck by a pickup truck while removing debris from the southbound lanes.

Those who attended the visitation walked through a line of American flags and past a state police vehicle covered in black and purple bunting to remember Trooper Carns—a man kno