Kim Lynn, age 3, female, was visiting her father, 24-year-old Louis Walls, at his Minquadale, Delaware home under a court custody agreement on August 8, 1987. That Saturday, both were found dead of gunshot wounds inside the residence on Martin Drive in the Collins Park neighborhood, a scene county police described as a murder-suicide.
Their bodies were discovered around 9 p.m.
by Louis’s brother, George Walls, and George’s wife, Mary, after the family became concerned when Louis failed to return Kim the previous night. Investigators reported each victim had a single gunshot wound to the head, and a 9mm pistol was recovered at the house. Details in contemporaneous reporting noted that while Louis had been late returning his daughter on prior visits, the delay this time ended in tragedy.
Police treated the case as a murder-suicide with Louis Walls as the responsible party, and no arrests were made. Later summaries list the case as resolved with the primary suspect deceased, and memorial records confirm Kim’s death by gun violence on the same date in Minquadale.
