Delmar, DE – The Delaware State Police have arrested 30-year-old Randon D. Wilkerson in connection with the assaults that occurred in Yorkshire Estates.
At approximately 5:12 am on Sunday April 25, 2021, Delmar Police Department was dispatched to the 11000 block of Buckingham Drive in the Yorkshire Estates Community for a report of a fight in progress. The 9-1-1 caller reported one of the occupants, who was later identified as Randon Wilkerson, was being disorderly, fighting with other residents of the house, and destroying items inside the residence. Moments later, a separate 9-1-1 call was received from a neighbor across the street from the original caller, stating he and his wife had been assaulted by a male subject. The caller then stated the assailant was no longer at his house.
Corporal Keith Heacook (Photo Attached) responded to the house of the initial call and was met with a physical confrontation with Wilkerson inside the home.
The dispatchers began checking on Cpl. Heacook and received no response. At that time, additional officers were dispatched and a Wicomico County Sheriffs Office Deputy and a Delaware State Trooper arrived on scene to find Cpl. Heacook unconscious inside the residence. Officers from Laurel Police Department arrived on scene, and upon pulling Cpl. Heacook from the house, began First Aid until Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrived. Cpl. Heacook was transported to TidalHeath in Salisbury and then given a police escort to Shock Trauma in Baltimore with significant head injuries.
The investigation into the separate, but related assault, which involved an elderly couple across the street revealed, Wilkerson knocked on the back door of 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. Both of those victims sustained significant injury and were transported by ambulance to area hospitals. The female victim was later transported to Shock Trauma in Baltimore.
Randon Wilkerson (No photo available at the time of this release) was observed by the allied police agencies walking on the rear of the property of the first 9-1-1 call and was taken into custody without incident. He was transported to Troop 5 in Bridgeville and charged with the following:
- Attempted Murder 1st
- Assault 1st (2 counts)
- Possession of a Deadly Weapon During the Commission of a Felony (2 counts)
- Burglary 1st
- Assault 3rd
- Terroristic Threatening
Randon Wilkerson was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court 3 and committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $451,000.00 cash bond.
The Delaware State Police is continuing the investigation into both events and is working collaboratively with the Delmar Police Department, Wicomico County Sheriffs Office, Maryland State Police, and all other involved agencies.
“Corporal Keith Heacook is a 22 year veteran and has been employed with our department since 1998.” said Chief Ivan Barkley of Delmar Police Department, “He 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. We appreciate the support from the Delaware State Police, Wicomico County Sheriffs Office, Maryland State Police, and all other agencies who responded and are assisting with this investigation.”
I don’t understand why Cpl. Heacook just didn’t shoot Wilkerson dead with four or five shoots from is law enforcement issue gun? Or is that not allowed anymore? I suppose Col. Heavook did exactly what the new laws that govern law enforcement response now dictate. That law enforcement allow the criminal space to act, destroying whatever they want, harm whoever they want, kill whoever they want and when the criminal is done acting out, then Col. Heacook should have handcuffed Wilkerson. Yeah, that’s the way law enforcement should respond from now on.
I would have shoot dead Wilkerson.
It would be nice if the turd was killed at the scene. This is the trash that is in all communities and will continue to be as long as our laws protect them instead of good citizens and good law enforcement. This gets me in the gut, not knowing Cpl. Heacook, but knowing he has served 22 years, he has to be a good man. Prayer’s for Cpl. Heacook and his family. I can’t imagine beating anyone, but to attack a couple of their age is despicable. Prayers for both of them and their family. Prayers also for the turd that did this horrific act, prayers that he remain in the lockup and someday feel what these innocent people feel. Purrr trash ?
I believe in DE you get a worse charge if you assault elderly people (I’m not sure of the details)
I hope they stick it to him hard!
You sound like a F’n Retard! Unless you’ve been in that same situation you need to STFU!
WRONG! You know damn well this social experiment created deliberately by the media and the Democrats is purposely intended to demoralize the police while protecting and giving the advantages to the criminal. You also know damn well that had Cpl Heacook shot dead Wilkerson that the media, BLM, the NAACP would have publicly castrated Cpl. Heacook, ruined him personally and professionally and found him guilty of murder.
You can thanks the media and state governments for the climate they created and they are responsible for what happened to the officer and the elderly couple. If I was the cop that made the arrest there would be no need for a trial
So its the media fault that there was only 1 officer on duty? Nope that’s on Delmar PD! They have to deal with that guilt!
This jerk should have been in jail. He’s had a warrant out for him since February. Why didn’t SPD pick him up? He has 2 pages on case search and hardly any punishment. He’s missed court cases, had warrants out for his arrest a few times and had been arrested several times. Still he walks the streets.
Wilkerson is a fine looking subject. I’m sure his mile long rap sheet is just the result of his being a targeted victim of systemic racism.
I’m sure there are actually idiots who believe a properly trained SJW snowflake could have de-escalated the situation.
Prayers for this office and the couple assaulted, hopeful that POS Wilkerson will not walk the streets again.
The one press release from Delaware State police said that several were arrested. I wonder if we will ever hear who else was arrested and why. Glad Randon had to spend his birthday in jail. Hope he has to spend another 50 of them in there. This was senseless. The elderly couple were innocent, not that the cops wasn’t but they were in their own home and he went in and beat them. A person like that needs to be locked up and left there. It should be a miserable experience for them for the rest of their life.
They were arrested because they were doing drugs.
Delmar Cops are good guys…
Here is a question for the Town Of Delmar and the Chief of Police.
Please tell us why there is only one police officer on duty?
Please tell us why only one police officer responded to a fight call or a domestic violence call?
I thought it was standard policy to send multiple units to fights and domestic violence calls! Yes please, let’s hear from Mayor Karen Hughes Wells and others from the Town of Delmar. And when you comment please let us know which elected officials are responding.
Signed: Concerned citizens
Yes, please tell us, Mare Karen!
Didn’t you listen to Chief Ivan Barkley’s plea to the community of Delmar, the State of Delaware and to the Nation? Didn’t you listen to Mike Lewis when Joe posted mike’s intercom Fox News? Nobody, absolutely nobody wants to become a law enforcement officer in this climate that the media, ultra left wing progressive liberal Democrats have purposely created. Mike Lewis told you that law enforcement officers are leaving the ranks in droves and no one is answering the calls for law enforcement applicants. Why, why, why would anyone want to be a police officer when this insane social experiment at demoralizes the police but emboldens, protects and encourages the criminal? Only a fool would become a police officer in the United States today.