Wounded Warrior Dead in Murder-Suicide

A wounded Army veteran of the war in Afghanistan from Moore Township, Northampton County shot his soon-to-be mother-in-law to death and then turned the gun on himself late Monday night, according to published reports.

Robert Kislow III shot and killed Michelle Snyder, 44, then himself, authorities confirmed today.

The home where the shootings took place was at a property on Delps Road where Homes for our Troops built a specially designed house for Robert Kislow III two years ago, according to The Express Times.

A neighbor told the newspaper that Kislow’s fiancée, Amanda Snyder, knocked on his door at a little before midnight and said that her fiancé had just shot her mother to death.

The Morning Call reported that Snyder’s mother had recently moved into the home. There were two children in the home, but neither of them was harmed, the newspaper reported.

Kislow, 27, who was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, was severely wounded, taking bullets to the right leg, right arm and helmet, during a gun battle with Taliban fighters in 2004.

Ultimately, he reluctantly agreed to have his leg amputated below the knee while he was being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A metal bar was used to replace shattered bones in his arm.

Despite the need for a prosthetic leg and restricted use of his arm, Kislow liked to keep active and returned to a sport he loved—paintball—not long after being released from Walter Reed.

He was a regular customer of Lehigh Valley Paintball in Emmaus.

In January 2011, Kislow was the subject of a Morning Call interview. Asked where he expected to be in five years, he said: “I will be a dad, a husband, and like all my fellow troops...a hometown hero. No one can take that from me.”