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.
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.
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.