Jacob Matthew Edwards was 6 when he was killed on July 9, 2018, in a mass shooting inside his family’s two-story home in the Prices Corner area of Wilmington, Delaware. Delaware State Police found five members of the Edwards family with fatal gunshot wounds on the second floor after a child arrived for a planned sleepover and discovered the scene. Autopsies by the Delaware Division of Forensic Science supported the finding that all five deaths were caused by gunfire.

Investigators determined that Jacob’s father, Matthew Edwards, shot his wife Julie Ann Burton Edwards and the three children, Jacob, Brinley Ann and Paxton Reece Edwards, and then fatally shot himself. Reports noted possible employment and marital troubles affecting Matthew, but authorities did not announce a definitive motive. With the identified perpetrator deceased and the deaths ruled a murder-suicide, no arrests or prosecutions followed. Jacob was remembered in memorial accounts as a child who enjoyed music and dancing.

If anyone knew the family or has information about events leading up to that night, please share what is known.