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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 t...

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 rep...

Salisbury Daily Times 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.

View Comments 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.

Monday, April 26, 2021 Country music artist and Cape Henlopen High School graduate Jimmie Allen has announced he will play an acoustic show Monday, May 10, to benefit the family of fallen Delmar Police Cpl. Keith Heacook.  The show at the Bottle & Cork in Dewey Beach will begin at 7 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door.  “That’s a terrible situation. I’m definitely keeping his family and friends in my prayers,” Allen said in a short video posted to Facebook May 4. “I wish it was a bet...

Monday, April 26, 2021 Cpl. Keith Andrew Heacook, badge number 913-10, answered his final call of duty Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Born Dec. 7, 1966, in Pompton Lakes, N.J., he was the youngest of seven children. Officer Heacook graduated from Cape Henlopen High School and Sussex Tech with the class of 1986. Following his high school graduation, Keith earned his degree in criminal justice from Del Tech Community College in Georgetown. The first four years of Keith’s career in law enforcement b...

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 rep...

SALISBURY, Md.— And on the third day, he couldnt rise.  The Rev. Lewis Watson still remembers losing his words as he tried to preach a December funeral, something he wouldnt expect in 40 years of practice. Short of breath, mind foggy, he decided to sleep alone in his man cave.  After three days of growing fatigue, Watson couldnt breath strongly enough to walk from the bed to bathroom. He would spend about six days in the hospital with COVID-19.  "Ive been through it," said the pastor ...