Slaying of 5 leaves family asking why
Police confirm all victims were shot, offer no motive
Photo by Staton Breidenthal
Garland County sheriff’s Sgt. Joel Ware (left) and investigator Mike Wright collect guns and other items Friday from a burned mobile home where four bodies were found early Thursday.
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Karen Gentry can’t make sense of it.
Standing in the parking lot across the street from her childhood home, she wondered out loud why anyone would kill her elderly father in the night in a rampage that authorities believe also left her brother, her sister-in-law, her nephew and his girlfriend dead in their burned out mobile home next door.
Every scenario tossed around by locals and family - a vendetta against one of the younger men, a drug-related crime, a targeted theft, a random burglary - seemed insufficient to them to explain why members of three generations of Gentrys had to die.
“I’m not believing what I’m seeing,” Gentry, 44, of Hot Springs said as investigators bagged charred pieces ...
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