Linda Faye Lloyd, a 67-year-old White/Caucasian woman from Kennett, Missouri, was killed on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2024, inside her residence on Lynndale Street. At approximately 6:43 p.m., Kennett police were dispatched to 1915 Lynndale after receiving a report concerning a suicidal man who was armed with a gun. When officers entered the residence, they discovered Lloyd dead from a single gunshot wound. The man connected to the emergency call was still at the scene when police arrived.
Police identified the man at the house as Tommy Lloyd. Investigators took him into custody at the scene rather than conducting a later search or manhunt. Subsequent local reporting identified Tommy Lloyd as Linda Lloyd’s son, a relationship also consistent with obituary records listing a son named Tommy among her surviving children. Her obituary states that Linda had been born Linda Faye Payne on May 8, 1957, in Lepanto, Arkansas, and had lived in Kennett. Her husband, Tommy Allen Lloyd, whom she married in Kennett in 1978, had died only months earlier, on May 11, 2024. Linda’s death therefore came near the end of a year in which she had already lost her husband.
The investigation quickly moved from the initial report of an armed suicidal person to a homicide prosecution. Dunklin County Prosecuting Attorney Nick Jain filed charges against Tommy Lloyd shortly after the shooting. Initial police and news reports listed first-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon. He was booked into the Dunklin County Jail and ordered held without bond. The Kennett Police Department worked the case with assistance from the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Dunklin County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities did not publicly describe another suspected shooter in the initial accounts; Tommy Lloyd was the person identified and arrested in connection with the killing.
As the criminal case proceeded, the charging information reported publicly became broader. By February 2025, local court coverage said Tommy Lloyd was facing both first- and second-degree murder counts, along with armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm. The allegations remained accusations to be resolved in court. Reporting described the case as one in which prosecutors alleged that Lloyd shot and killed his mother at their Kennett home on New Year’s Eve.
Lloyd appeared in court on January 16, 2025. During that stage of the proceedings, a request to reduce his bond was denied, leaving him incarcerated without bond, and a preliminary hearing was initially scheduled for February 6. That hearing did not proceed on the original timetable; later reporting said it was rescheduled for March 4. The preliminary-hearing process was intended to determine whether sufficient probable cause existed for the felony prosecution to continue toward circuit court proceedings.
The publicly available online reporting located through August 2026 establishes Tommy Lloyd’s arrest, the murder and firearm-related charges, his continued detention without bond during the early proceedings, and the rescheduling of his preliminary hearing, but it does not establish a subsequent trial verdict, guilty plea, conviction, acquittal, dismissal, or sentence. No additional suspect was identified in the reliable reporting reviewed, and the available accounts consistently centered the homicide investigation and prosecution on Tommy Lloyd. Linda Faye Lloyd was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Kennett following funeral services arranged for early January 2025, leaving behind children, grandchildren, siblings, other relatives, and friends as the criminal case stemming from her death moved through the courts.
