22-Year Delaware Police Veteran ‘Fighting For His Life’ After Attack By Career Felon, Police Say
Attack comes in the wake of anti-police rhetoric.
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Early on Sunday Morning, a Delmar, Delaware police officer went to go respond to a 911 call about a fight in the Yorkshire Estates Community. Soon after, another 911 call reported that the officer was unresponsive and on the verge of death.
The brutal attack comes in the wake of radical anti-police rhetoric and leftist Black Lives Matter violence, especially in the wake of the Derek Chauvin verdict last week.
Allegedly, one of the occupants of a house in the community, a man named Randon D. Wilkerson, was reported to be assaulting others in the home, as well as assaulting several men and women in neighboring homes. When the officer, Corporal Keith Heacook, went to respond to the calls, he got involved in a physical altercation and was left in dire need of emergency medical care.
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A man was arrested in connection with the assault of a Delmar police officer and an elderly couple on Sunday, Delaware State Police said.
Randon D. Wilkerson, 30, was charged with attempted murder in the first degree, and two counts of first-degree assault, among other charges, according to a Delaware State Police news release late Sunday, April 25.
A vigil was held for the victims Sunday evening at the Delmar Police Department.
At about 5:12 a.m. Sunday, Delmar Police Department was dispatched to a fight in progress at the 11000 block of Buckingham Drive in the Yorkshire Estates community. The 911 caller reported an occupant of the house, later identified as Wilkerson, was fighting with other residents of the house and destroying items, police said.
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Delmar police were called at 5:12 a.m. to a home in the 11000 block of Yorkshire Estates where Randon D. Wilkerson was fighting with residents and destroying items in the home, said Master Cpl. Gary Fournier of the Delaware State Police.
Moments later, Fournier said, a separate 911 call was received from a neighbor across the street who said he and his wife had been assaulted by a male subject. The caller then stated the assailant was no longer at his house.