Chris Snyder Wife Held Captive, Escaped MD Home Shortly Before Deadly Brookeville Rampage Murder-Suicide

The wife of Christopher Wilson Snyder, the MD man involved in a violent Brookeville murder-suicide, says she was held captive by him and had escaped shortly before he conducted his deadly rampage.

According to a recent release, there were three people who were killed at 22002 Brown Farm Way and three people that were able to escape.

54-year-old Craig Harold Shotwell, a construction worker from Owings Mills, was one of the three killed. Police say he was simply working on Snyder’s neighbors home during the shooting.

The other two people killed were Mary Anne Olson, 66, who was Snyder’s neighbor, and 70-year-old Danny Lee Murphy who had come from South Dakota to visit Snyder’s neighbors.

Snyder’s wife says that she had been held in Snyder’s home, 22001 Brown Farm Way, against her will over the weekend and had finally found an opportunity to escape to the neighbor’s house. Police believe that this caused Snyder to go to the house next door and shoot the three people. source

This is a developing story.