{"id":461945,"date":"2021-04-29T16:35:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461945"},"modified":"2021-04-29T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:35:53","slug":"man-brutally-beats-delaware-police-officer-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-brutally-beats-delaware-police-officer-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Brutally Beats Delaware Police Officer To Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-brutally-beats-delaware-police-officer-to-death%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461945&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-90.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A 30-year-old man has been charged in the brutal beating death of a Delaware police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Delmar Police Officer Corporal Keith Heacook responded to a call for help on Sunday morning, after his alleged would-be killer apparently assaulted an elderly couple. When he arrived on the scene, he was brutally beaten and repeatedly kicked in the head while on the ground unconscious, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Heacook\u2019s unconscious body was found by other law enforcement officials following the attack. He was rushed to a nearby trauma center, where he\u00a0was put on a ventilator and had a shunt inserted into his skull, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/04\/28\/delaware-delmar-keith-heacook-police-officer-death-assault-call\/4882575001\/\">according<\/a> to the Salisbury Daily Times.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities confirmed Wednesday that the officer died from his injuries, including severe head trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital officials in Baltimore pronounced Heacook clinically deceased, though he still remained on life support. The officer\u2019s organs will be donated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need you to know that even with his sacrifice, he\u2019s still a hero for someone,\u201d said Delmar Police Chief Ivan Barkley.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect Randon Wilkerson\u00a0has already been charged with attempted murder in the first degree, two counts of assault in the first degree, two counts of possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, burglary,\u00a0assault in the third degree, and terroristic threatening, <a href=\"https:\/\/dsp.delaware.gov\/2021\/04\/25\/update-arrest-made-delmar-police-officer-assaulted-delmar-de\/\">said<\/a> a press release from\u00a0Delaware State Police.<\/p>\n<p>The press release also outlined Wilkerson\u2019s attack on the elderly couple:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>\u201cWilkerson knocked on the back door of a residence and was met by the 73-year-old male victim. The male victim was then assaulted as Wilkerson entered the house and then struck numerous times with a glass object. Wilkerson then repeatedly assaulted a 76-year-old female with the same object before fleeing the house.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCorporal Keith Heacook is a 22 year veteran and has been employed with our department since 1998,\u201d Chief Barkley said Sunday. \u201cHe is a husband, son, brother, and father. Keith is fighting for his life right now and he needs your prayers along with the elderly couple who were also injured. Members from the Delmar Police appreciate the outpouring of community support as we continue to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings (D) vowed Heacook\u2019s killer will be held accountable for his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe 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,\u201d said Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to mourn the loss of a man who devoted his entire career to the selfless cause of serving the rest of us,\u201d the AG continued. \u201cAnd we are here to acknowledge law enforcement across this state who willingly face danger each and every day so that all of the rest of us don\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight we wrap our arms around a community and a family and hold them in support and prayer,\u201d added Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Wilkerson are expected to be upgraded to include murder<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old man has been charged in the brutal beating death of a Delaware police officer.Delmar Police Officer Corporal Keith Heacook responded to a call for help on Sunday morning, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277030,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-90.png?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Man Brutally Beats Delaware Police Officer To Death","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-90.png?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Man Brutally Beats Delaware Police Officer To Death","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}