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.
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SALISBURY, Md. (WJZ) Family, friends and hundreds of law enforcement officers from Maryland, Delaware and beyond gathered Monday morning to pay their final respects to slain Delmar Police Cpl. Keith Heacook.
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Gov. Larry Hogan spoke at the Heacook’s funeral and remembered his 22 years of service.
“John Chapter 15, Verse 13 says, ‘greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends, ” Hogan said. “Two states are grieving the loss of one of our true heroes.”
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Family, friends, fellow officers and community members gathered Monday, May 10, for the funeral of Cpl. Keith Heacook.
Heacook was a 22-year veteran of the Delmar Police Department. He was assaulted April 25 while responding to a 911 call in the Yorkshire Estates community of Delmar, Delaware.
He was critically injured and officials at a Baltimore trauma center pronounced him clinically deceased April 28, though he remained on life support so his organs could be donated.
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A funeral was held Monday for the Delawarepolice officer who died at the hospital last month after suffering head injuries while responding to a call for help at a housing subdivision.
The body of Delmar Police Cpl. Keith Heacook, who was a 22-year veteran of the force, was transported from Short Funeral Home in Delmar, Delaware, to Emmanuel Wesleyan Church in Salisbury, Maryland, Monday.
Hundreds of law enforcement officials as well as members of the community, attended the funeral, Fox 5 DC reported. Roads by the church were to be closed off since around 4 a.m., WJZ reported.