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The hurt is still fresh across Delmarva in the wake of the Wednesday death of Cpl. Keith Heacook of the Delmar Police Department.
A 22-year veteran of the department, he was assaulted while responding to a 911 call Sunday morning at a home in the Yorkshire Estates community by the same man who police said attacked an elderly couple living across the street.
Heacook was critically injured, and hospital officials in Baltimore pronounced him clinically dead Wednesday afternoon. Our community, my department, his family we all mourn, said Delmar Police Chief Ivan Barkley in a news conference announcing Heacook s death.
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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.
Delmar Officer Fighting For His Life After Being Beaten While Responding To Disturbance
Delmar, DE – A Delmar police corporal is fighting for his life after he was attacked by a suspect while responding to a fight in progress by himself, police said.
The violent assault occurred at around 5:12 a.m. at the Yorkshire Estates community in the 11000 block of Buckingham Drive, after the Delmar Police Department (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.
Investigators who searched the scene found several shattered figurines left behind. Documents state that after Wilkerson was taken to Troop 5 in Bridgeville, police say that he admitted to using the glass angels to assault the Franklins and to getting into a physical altercation with a separate person.
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Documents show a state police detective responded to the Delmar Police Department to meet with another person who reported they d been in an altercation with Wilkerson in the early morning hours of April 25.
The victim told the detective that at about 3 a.m. that day, Wilkerson hit him with his fist on the right side of his face. That blow caused a black eye, according to documents, leading to the third-degree assault charge against Wilkerson.