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April 29, 2021
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has ordered the United States Flag and Maryland State Flag be lowered to half-staff effective immediately and returned to full-staff at sunset on the day of interment (not yet known).
This action is in honor of Corporal Keith Heacook of the Delmar Police Department, who died in the line of duty on April 28, 2021
The Delaware State Police have arrested 30-year-old
Randon D. Wilkerson in connection with the assaults that occurred in Yorkshire Estates.
At approximately 5:12 a.m., on Sunday April 25, 2021, Delmar Police Department was dispatched to the 11000 block of Buckingham Drive in the Yorkshire Estates Community for a report of a fight in progress. The 9-1-1 caller reported one of the occupants, who was later identified as Randon Wilkerson, was being disorderly, fighting with other residents of the house, and destroying items inside the residence. Moments later, a separate 9-1-1 call was received from a neighbor across the street
Much of Delmarva was sent into a spiral of shock and anger on Sunday, April 25, when word came out that a Delmar police officer, Cpl. Keith Heacock, was gravely injured in an assault that reportedly took place as the officer responded to an early-morning domestic situation.
Heacock, a 1986 graduate of Cape Henlopen High School and a 22-year veteran of the Delmar Police Department, according to the Cape Gazette, received severe head injuries during the incident, and was taken to a shock-trauma unit in Baltimore.
On Wednesday, April 28, Heacock was declared dead from his injuries. Another bright star taken all-too-soon from violence. True to the selfless nature in which he led his all-too-abbreviated life, he was kept on life support in order to harvest his organs for others. Heroism never sleeps.
A Delaware police officer who was attacked while responding to a fight earlier this week has died from his injuries.
Delmar Police Chief Ivan Barkley said that Cpl Keith Heacook, 54, was declared “clinically dead” Wednesday afternoon but remains on life support for organ donation, NBC10 Philadelphia reported.
Heacook responded to a report of a fight in progress just after 5 a.m. on Sunday in the Yorkshire Estates community, as CrimeOnline previously reported. When he didn’t respond to dispatch a short time later, more officers were sent to the location, where they found Heacook unconscious inside the residence.
Police later said that the 911 caller told dispatchers that a man was being disorderly, fighting with residence and destroying items. Moments after that call, a second caller an across the street neighbor said that a man attacked him and his wife.