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DELMAR, Del. Delmarva is in mourning.
News of the death of Cpl. Keith Heacook of the Delmar Police Department has rocked law enforcement and community members throughout the region.
Heacook was assaulted Sunday, April 25, while responding to a report of a fight in progress at a home in the Yorkshire Estates community by the same man who police said attacked an elderly couple across the street.
Left with critical injuries, Heacook was taken first to a Salisbury hospital and then to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he was pronounced clinically dead Wednesday, April 28. His family made the decision to donate his organs.
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Cpl. Keith Heacook, 54, was killed in the line of duty when responding to a fight that was in progress early Sunday morning, suffering head injuries that left him unconscious.