Judy Franklin suffered several lacerations to her head, including broken eye sockets, documents stated.
Both were taken to area hospitals and have since been treated and discharged, state police said.
Delmar police officer Cpl. Keith Heacook was involved in a separate-but-related incident across the street involving Wilkerson, police said. Heacook was sent to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore the morning of the attack and was pronounced clinically dead April 28. (Wilkerson) will be held accountable for his heinous crimes against Cpl. Heacook, against the elderly couple he viciously attacked, and against Delmar and our entire state, Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings said in a news conference.
The Delmar community has rallied together in support of three victims hospitalized after separate attacks April 25.
A Go Fund Me account posted April 26 named Steve and Judy Franklin as the couple who were attacked in the early morning hours while in their home on Buckingham Drive in the Yorkshire Estates development.
Kim Nock, director of the Humane Society of Wicomico County, spoke highly of the couple and said Steve has been a volunteer with the organization for eight years, working three to four days a week helping walk and care for the animals.
She said the Humane Society of Wicomico County created the Go Fund Me account with a goal of raising $20,000. More than $18,000 had been raised as of April 28.
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April 1, 2021
SALISBURY, Md. – The Wicomico humane society is asking residents to consider adopting a dog.
When covid hit, they say they had a lot of people ready to adopt because they were spending more time at home. However, now with people changing housing, moving to places where dogs aren’t accepted, or people being unable to financially support them, they have more dogs than they can handle. Kim Nock, Executive Director at the Wicomico humane society says, “Even if you wanted to just take a dog for the weekend just to get them out of the shelter or maybe take the dog for a few weeks and figure out if that’s going to be your forever buddy.