Missing Charleston man capital’s first slaying of 2012
7-Eleven district manager’s body found in Elk River
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police are investigating the city's first homicide this year after boaters found the body of a missing man in the Elk River Saturday morning.
Charleston Police Sgt. Bobby Eggleton said Robert "Bob" Kenneth Snow, 55, of 103 Arlington Ave., Charleston, had been in the river for a couple days when boaters called Kanawha County Metro 911 at about 11:30 a.m. and said there was a body floating in the Elk near the Slack Street boat ramp.
A Charleston Fire Department rescue boat was called to the scene to help retrieve the body from the river. It was placed in an ambulance and transported to an area dock.
As of Saturday evening, police said they have no suspects or a motive in the slaying, Eggleton said, but did say that foul play is suspected.
Eggleton said "certain evidentiary things that we found . . . stuff on Mr. Snow would lead us to believe that foul play has occurred."
Snow was last seen by relatives at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday leaving the 7-Eleven on Washington Street West, where he worked as a district manager.
He was seen again at about 5:30 p.m. at the 7-Eleven on Bigley Avenue, when he checked on employees and bought some lottery tickets, the Gazette-Mail previously reported.
Snow didn't show up at his girlfriend's house in South Charleston that night, Eggleton has said earlier in the week.
Relatives filed a missing-person's report with the West Virginia State Police on Thursday morning. Troopers asked Eggleton to track Snow's cellphone using triangulation software owned by the Charleston Police Department.
Detectives tracked the signal to a parking lot at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Westmoreland Drive on Charleston's West Side. That's where they found Snow's car, with the cellphone inside, but no clues as to his whereabouts.
Snow was a private, quiet person who kept to himself, said his daughter, Wendy Reynolds. As a NASCAR fanatic and family-oriented man, he went to races all the time with his family, she said.
Charleston Police Sgt. Bobby Eggleton said Robert "Bob" Kenneth Snow, 55, of 103 Arlington Ave., Charleston, had been in the river for a couple days when boaters called Kanawha County Metro 911 at about 11:30 a.m. and said there was a body floating in the Elk near the Slack Street boat ramp.
A Charleston Fire Department rescue boat was called to the scene to help retrieve the body from the river. It was placed in an ambulance and transported to an area dock.
As of Saturday evening, police said they have no suspects or a motive in the slaying, Eggleton said, but did say that foul play is suspected.
Eggleton said "certain evidentiary things that we found . . . stuff on Mr. Snow would lead us to believe that foul play has occurred."
Snow was last seen by relatives at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday leaving the 7-Eleven on Washington Street West, where he worked as a district manager.
He was seen again at about 5:30 p.m. at the 7-Eleven on Bigley Avenue, when he checked on employees and bought some lottery tickets, the Gazette-Mail previously reported.
Snow didn't show up at his girlfriend's house in South Charleston that night, Eggleton has said earlier in the week.
Relatives filed a missing-person's report with the West Virginia State Police on Thursday morning. Troopers asked Eggleton to track Snow's cellphone using triangulation software owned by the Charleston Police Department.
Detectives tracked the signal to a parking lot at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Westmoreland Drive on Charleston's West Side. That's where they found Snow's car, with the cellphone inside, but no clues as to his whereabouts.
Snow was a private, quiet person who kept to himself, said his daughter, Wendy Reynolds. As a NASCAR fanatic and family-oriented man, he went to races all the time with his family, she said.
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