A funeral for Cpl. Keith Heacook of the Delmar Police Department is planned for Monday, May 10.
The service will take place at noon at Emmanuel Wesleyan Church on Beaglin Park Drive in Salisbury, with the Rev. Christopher Labarge of St Francis de Sales Cathoic Church officiating, according to an obituary for Heacook posted online Monday. Visitation will occur from 10 a.m. to noon and internment will be private.
Heacook was critically injured when he was assaulted while responding to a report of a fight in progress at a Delmar home at about 5:12 a.m. Sunday, April 25.
Officials at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore declared him clinically deceased at 12:48 p.m. Wednesday, April 28. At that time, Heacook remained on life support so that his organs could be donated.
Dispatchers began checking on Cpl. Heacook and received no response, the news release said.
Heacook was found inside the home and unconscious, the release said. He had suffered significant head injuries, police said. Officers with the Delmar Police Department, Laurel Police Department, Wicomico County Sheriff s Office and Delaware State Police responded.
Laurel officers pulled the officer from the home and performed first aid, and paramedics took Heacook to a TidalHealth facility in Salisbury, Maryland, before he was taken to a shock trauma center in Baltimore.
Multiple people at the home where the initial 911 call was made were taken into custody, state police said without elaborating.
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.
Police escort returns body of slain officer to Delaware
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Police escort returns body of slain officer to Delaware
Cpl. Keith Heacook, 54, died Wednesday at the hospital from injuries he suffered April 25 in the line of duty.
DELMAR, Del. - The body of a Delaware police officer who died after authorities say he was attacked responding to a fight returned to his home state Sunday with a police escort.
Law enforcement agencies from Maryland and Delaware escorted the body of Cpl. Keith Heacook from the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore to Delmar. Heacook was a 22-year veteran of the Delmar Police Department.
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.