A full police detail funeral will be held on Monday at noon at Emmanuel Wesleyan Church in Salisbury for Delmar Police Cpl. Keith Heacook, who was fatally injured in the line of duty.

The 54-year-old officer was severely beaten in an attack April 25. He died last week at University Hospital in Baltimore.

Visitation at the church will be from 10 a.m. until noon. The Rev. Christopher Labarge of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Salisbury will preside.

Heacook was pronounced clinically dead last Wednesday afternoon of massive head injuries he sustained in an ambush during a domestic police call on the Delaware side of Delmar.

Also seriously injured in the early-morning attack was an elderly couple -- Judy Franklin, 76, and Steve Franklin, 73 -- who lived across the street from where Cpl. Heacook was first confronted. Both have since been released from the hospital and are recovering at home, authorities said.

Randon D. Wilkerson, 30, of Salisbury, was arrested shortly after the attacks and was initially charged with attempted murder, assault, burglary, possession of a deadly weapon while committing a felony and terroristic threatening.

Charges against Wilkerson will be upgraded to include murder, Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings said.

Heacook’s body was returned to Delmar in a police escort on Sunday, where a ceremony was held at the town’s police station. Doctors in Baltimore successfully removed lifesaving organs from the 22-year police veteran, which will be used by as many as eight people in medical need.

Delaware State Police said the couple injured in the assault — — were released from the hospital and are recovering at home.

This week, condolences and tributes continued to be shared as the mid-Delmarva community mourned his passing.

The community has rallied to hold prayer vigils and other events intended to both honor Cpl. Heacook and raise money to aid his survivors.

Cpl. Heacook, whose wife was Susan Heacook, also had a 12-year-old son, Matthew.

Governors in Delaware and Maryland each announced on Thursday that flags will be flown at half-staff in honor of Heacook. 

Delaware Gov. John Carney ordered both the U.S. and state flags to be lowered.

“The Delmar community and the entire state of Delaware lost a public servant,” said Carney. “My heart is with Cpl. Heacook’s family and Cpl. Heacook’s fellow law enforcement officers across Delaware, who put their own lives on the line to protect the rest of us.”

In Annapolis, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan made a similar announcement.

“We owe so much to the brave law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities,” Hogan said.

Acting Wicomico County Executive John Psota, a retired Maryland State Police member, said the Maryland county’s flags will also be lowered.

“Cpl. Heacook’s death is a solemn reminder of the risks and sacrifices our law enforcement officers are willing to accept in order to keep us safe and to preserve our way of life,” Mr. Psota said.

“We pray for the strength of his family and friends and the continued healing of the other victims in this incomprehensible tragedy,” he said.

Tracie West-Ney, the mother of Cpl. Heacook’s son, Matthew, relayed on Facebook the scene in which she informed the young man of his father’s sacrifice.

“I just had to tell my 12-year-old son that he will never see his father again ... he crumpled up into a ball on the floor crying his eyes out,” she wrote.

“This violence in our country has to stop ... we can’t let this continue to happen,” Ms. West-Ney wrote. “I will fight with all I have to do my part to make sure another officer’s family doesn’t have to go through this.

“Keith was one of the good ones, he didn’t deserve this,” she wrote. “He was simply doing the job he so loved to do -- to protect and serve.”

Political and law enforcement leaders also continued to comment Thursday.

“Police Cpl. Keith Heacook was deeply dedicated to helping people in his community, and my heart breaks for his family, friends, and fellow law enforcement officers following the tragic news of his death,” U.S. Sen. Chris Coons said in a statement. “The Delmar Police Department was fortunate to have a hero and 22-year veteran among its ranks, and Annie and I have Keith's family in our thoughts and prayers.”

Said Delaware’s senior Sen. Thomas Carper: “Martha and I are heartbroken to hear the news that Delmar lost a true public servant with the passing of Cpl. Keith Heacook, who gave his life protecting his community. Our prayers go out to his wife, son, family and fellow officers as we mourn his life and honor his heroic efforts that day.”

Delmar, Md., Mayor Karen Wells called for the community to remain united through its mourning.

“The Mayors, Council and Commission and the Town Hall staff are devastated,” she wrote. “We are hurt and angry that such a horrible act has been committed against one of our finest.

“Now is a time for unity, not division. It is a time for healing -- for Corporal Heacook, and for our community,” Ms. Wells wrote. “It is a time that we need to stand together, support each other, and support our Police Department. We will weather this storm together, because that’s what we do. We are Delmar.”

Delmar Realtor and business leader Holly Campbell heralded the officer’s organ donation, as well as his service.

“My strongest pleas are that our remaining officers and those supporting them can find it in their hearts to keep going, but that they can find rest and recovery somehow.  We appreciate and need you. We are grateful for all you do.”

Campbell added: “I heard from a friend that Keith, in his departure from this life, will be giving a new life to up to eight people with his organ donations. That today those people could get the life-changing call they have desperately waited and prayed for. He has made an incredible sacrifice and will live on through others in so many ways.”

On Saturday, bikers and those with trucks and other vehicles assembled in the Seaford Village Shopping Center parking lot for a “Cruise” honoring Heacook and in support of his family.

“It’s showing respect to a fallen hero, one that put his life on the line to protect other people,” said Salisbury resident Michael Layfield, joined in the Cruise event by Melissa Brooks. “And, unfortunately, under the circumstances he lost his own life while doing his job.”

“We’re here to support the family,” said Brooks, noting Heacook’s wife and son.

Grew up in Lewes

Heacook was born on Dec. 7, 1966, in Pompton Lakes, N.J., the youngest of seven children. He graduated in 1986 from Cape Henlopen High School and Sussex Tech. He earned a degree in Criminal Justice from Del-Tech Community College in Georgetown.

The first four years of Keith’s career in law enforcement began at the Wicomico County Detention Center. He joined the Delmar Police Department in 1998.

When not protecting the people of Delmar, he worked as an accomplished carpenter.

He is survived by his wife, Susan M. Heacook; his son, Matthew D. Heacook; his stepchildren, Michelle M. Colander, Clint M. Baker and Chuck M. Baker; his mother, Anita C. Heacook; his sisters, Maryalice Heacook Berrios, Anita Heacook Feaster and Kathleen Heacook; and a brother, Thomas Heacook. 

He was preceded in death by his father, Joseph B. Heacook Sr.; a brother, Joseph B. Heacook Jr.; and a sister, Bethann Heacook.

Interment will be private. Arrangements are in the care of Short Funeral Home in Delmar.