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Family, friends, fellow officers and community members gathered Monday, May 10, for the funeral of Cpl. Keith Heacook.
Heacook was a 22-year veteran of the Delmar Police Department. He was assaulted April 25 while responding to a 911 call in the Yorkshire Estates community of Delmar, Delaware.
He was critically injured and officials at a Baltimore trauma center pronounced him clinically deceased April 28, though he remained on life support so his organs could be donated.
Country Music Star Jimmie Allen Holding Benefit Show For Family Of Murdered Delmar Cop
Dewey Beach, DE – Country music singer Jimmie Allen will travel to his home state of Delaware next week to put on a fundraising concert for the family of slain Delmar Police Corporal Keith Heacook.
Cpl. Heacook, a married father-of-one, died in the line of duty on April 28 after a suspect brutally beat him while he was investigating a report of disturbance several days prior.
An elderly couple was also attacked and assaulted by the same suspect, leaving them severely injured.
Allen, a native of Milton, Delaware, said he learned about the corporal’s murder in a Facebook post and knew he had to do something to help his grieving family, WJZ reported.
Delaware News Journal
Delmar Police Department Cpl. Keith Heacook will return to the town he served Sunday in a dignified police escort, Delmar Police Chief Ivan Barkley announced Saturday in a press release.
Heacook was declared clinically dead Wednesday and kept on life support for organ donation.
He had responded to a fight in progress at Yorkshire Estates last Sunday, April 25, and was attacked by 30-year-old Randon D. Wilkerson, police said. He suffered significant blunt-force trauma and was taken to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
His body will be escorted from Baltimore to Delmar starting at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Hero Down: Delmar PD Corporal Keith Heacook Beaten To Death On Disturbance Call
Delmar, DE – Delmar Police Department (DPD) Corporal Keith Heacook died in the line of duty on Wednesday after he was viciously attacked by a suspect while responding to a report of a disturbance on April 25.
The violent assault occurred at around 5:12 a.m. at the Yorkshire Estates community in the 11000-block of Buckingham Drive, after the DPD received a report that 30-year-old Randon Wilkerson was destroying objects and “fighting with other residents” inside the home, the Delaware State Police (DSP) said in a press release.
Shortly after the initial call came in, the DPD received a report from a neighbor across the street who said he and his wife had been attacked by a male suspect who then fled the scene, the DSP said.