SALISBURY, Md. A beloved husband, a beloved son, brother, father and friend to everyone he knew.
Someone who knew how to enjoy the simple things in life like watching his son play baseball and visiting his mother.
An extraordinary man with a contagious smile and a dry, quirky sense of humor.
A gentle giant.
A hero to the end.
These are just a few of the memories friends, family and fellow officers offered Monday afternoon as they paid tribute to Cpl. Keith Heacook, who was killed in the line of duty.
“On April 24, Keith was getting ready for his midnight shift. Your thoughts are not, ‘What’s going to happen to me today?’ It’s, ‘Does the kid have a game? Do I gotta go to the bank? Am I getting enough sleep for my side job?’ ” said Heacook s cousin Larry Schwartz, a retired law enforcement officer.
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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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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.
Judy Franklin suffered several lacerations to her head, including broken eye sockets, documents stated.
Both were taken to area hospitals and have since been treated and discharged, state police said.
Delmar police officer Cpl. Keith Heacook was involved in a separate-but-related incident across the street involving Wilkerson, police said. Heacook was sent to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore the morning of the attack and was pronounced clinically dead April 28. (Wilkerson) will be held accountable for his heinous crimes against Cpl. Heacook, against the elderly couple he viciously attacked, and against Delmar and our entire state, Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings said in a news conference.