Jeremy Pickney, Marvin Stringer and Samuel Conway, all in their early twenties, were quickly identified as suspects due to their possessing stolen goods from the Gentry trailer.
Stringer was killed during a shootout in a police raid when authorities attempted to arrest him at the Red Roof Inn on East Grand Ave. Conway was convicted at trial in June 2011 on multiple counts of capital murder and burglary, and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Pickney made a plea bargain, pleading guilty in 2011 to conspiracy to commit aggravated residential burglary, and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
In the early morning hours of November 12, 2009, firefighters were alerted to a burning mobile home in Pearcy, Arkansas, approximately 55 miles southwest of Little Rock.
Police determined that the victims had been burglarized: flat-screen televisions, guns, and two sets of rims and tires had been stolen.
The informant also purchased a .40-caliber pistol from Stringer; it was positively identified as having belonged to Edward Gentry Sr. On November 19, police raided an inn in Hot Springs, Arkansas where they had learned the suspects were staying.
[5] In October of the same year, Pickney reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, pleading guilty to lesser charges to avoid trial on capital murder.
[6] In June 2016 Conway pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder in return for capital charges being dropped and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.