Samantha Lynn Fields, 38, a White female from Marysville, Pennsylvania, died on September 15, 2025. Obituaries published in the days after her death identified her by full name, age, and residence and confirmed the date, noting she was “taken from this world all too soon.”
According to investigators, Fields was found dead with gunshot wounds just inside the front door of a home on the 1400 block of New Valley Road in Rye Township, near Marysville, after a domestic dispute the
previous night. Police said a 911 call was placed around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, and troopers arrived to discover her body inside the residence. Reporting based on court documents states that the argument occurred the night before and that a child was in the home during the hours that followed.
Authorities arrested Douglas Wayne Snyder, 56, of Marysville. He was charged with criminal homicide, with additional counts including endangering the welfare of a child, and was taken into custody and jailed following arraignment. Local coverage, citing the affidavit of probable cause, reported that Snyder told state police the shooting happened during a domestic argument and initially characterized it as accidental.
Multiple outlets corroborated key details: the domestic dispute in the home, the discovery of Fields on the morning of September 15, the presence of a child, and Snyder’s arrest on homicide charges. Memorial pages and gun-violence records further recorded Fields’s death in Marysville on that date. As of those reports, Snyder remained charged in connection with her killing, and the case advanced through the local courts.
