SALISBURY, Md. (AP) Funeral services are being held Monday for a Delaware police officer who died after authorities say he was attacked while responding to a fight.
Hundreds of officers from Delaware, Maryland and other states and members of the community that Delmar police Cpl. Keith Heacook served are expected to attend.
Heacook, a 22-year veteran of the department, was married and had a 12-year-old son. Authorities say Heacook was attacked by Brandon Wilkerson of Salisbury, Maryland.
Heacook died days later. Wilkerson was charged with attempted murder and other offences and authorities have said the charges will be upgraded to include murder.
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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.
Slain Delmar police Cpl. Keith Heacook honored with funeral services, escort
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Delmar police Cpl. Keith Heacook (Delaware State Police)
Authorities say Heacook was attacked by Brandon Wilkerson of Salisbury, Maryland and died days later. The Associated Press says Wilkerson was charged with attempted murder and other offences and authorities have said the charges will be upgraded to include murder.
He was a 22-year veteran of the department and was married and had a 12-year-old son.
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Heacook’s body will be escorted from Short Funeral Home in Delmar, Delaware, to Emmanuel Wesleyan Church in Salisbury, Maryland.
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.