On December 4, 1981, Tyrone Whittle, 27, was shot to death in Stanton, Delaware, in a triple shooting described by contemporaneous reporting as an execution-type murder-suicide. The gunman forced entry into Althea Lyons’s apartment at the Christiana Court apartments off State Route 4 about 6:45 a.m., used a 12-gauge shotgun to kill Lyons and Whittle, then turned the weapon on himself. Responding New Castle County officers found three bodies and the shotgun inside the residence.

Reporting identified the shooter as 36-year-old Willie Andrews of Georgetown Village Apartments, an employee at the Chrysler assembly plant in Newark. Whittle was identified as a Wilmington postal letter carrier who lived in the 2700 block of West Street. Two young children fled the apartment during the gunfire and alerted neighbors; one child was reportedly fathered by the shooter and the other by Ms. Lyons’s estranged husband. The victim’s ethnicity is not specified in the reports.

Did anyone in the Stanton or Wilmington area remember Tyrone Whittle, his route as a postal carrier, or the Christiana Court apartments in late 1981?