Linda Faye Edwards, a 75-year-old woman from Houston, was fatally shot late in the morning on July 15, 2025, at an apartment complex in the 4000 block of Griggs Road. Responding officers with the Houston Police Department found her with multiple gunshot wounds; she died from her injuries the same day. In the days that followed, funeral notices and memorial pages confirmed her identity and age, noting that she was a longtime Houston resident with services scheduled for early August.
Investigators alleged that the shooting occurred while Edwards was outside the complex collecting aluminum cans. Witness accounts and early coverage described a confrontation that ended when a woman inside the building fired multiple shots; the shooter later told authorities she believed she was acting in self-defense. Police publicly identified the victim as Linda Edwards and detailed the timeline of the response and investigation.
Within days, detectives arrested Amber McNulty, 43. She was initially taken into custody on a felon-in-possession charge on July 15 and then formally charged with murder later that month; Houston Police announced the murder charge on July 25, 2025, and said the case was filed in the 209th State District Court. Media reports noted she remained jailed following the upgrade to the murder charge.
As of the latest public updates, McNulty is the sole named suspect in Edwards’s killing. Authorities have not announced additional arrests, and court proceedings stemming from the murder charge remain pending. Community remembrances continued to circulate in Houston through late summer, marking Edwards’s death and the circumstances that led to it.
