2 arrested in grisly murders of family

Saturday, November 21, 2009

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Housekeeper Twyla Davis cleans up broken glass Friday from Room 139 in the National Park Inn in Hot Springs, where a man was killed Thursday in a police shootout.

Housekeeper Twyla Davis cleans up broken glass Friday from Room 139 in the National Park Inn in Hot Springs, where a man was killed Thursday in a police shootout.
Photo by Karen E. Segrave

Two men were arrested Friday morning in the murders of five people on a remote property in Garland County last week.

The men - and a third suspect killed in a shootout with police Thursday night - are accused of killing four members of a family and a young woman in neighboring houses during a burglary, arrest records say.

The suspects were linked to the crimes by stolen items that included flatscreen televisions, guns and expensive wheel rims that they were selling, the arrest records say.

Jeremy Pickney, 23, and Samuel Conway, 23, both of Hot Springs, were held without bail Friday on charges of capital murder, aggravated residential burglary and arson.

They have pleaded in-nocent and are represented by public defenders ...


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