A mass killing in Pearcy, Arkansas left five family members dead after a house fire on November 12, 2009 was found to have been set after the victims were shot. Firefighters called to a mobile home on Old Airport Road discovered the charred bodies of 24-year-old Jeremy Robert Gentry, his parents Edward Earl Gentry Jr., 56, and Pamela Gentry, 52, and Jeremy’s 19-year-old girlfriend Kristyn Nichole Warneke. Investigators later found the body of Jeremy’s 80-year-old grandfather, Edward Gentry Sr., in a separate building on the property. The state medical examiner determined Jeremy died of a single gunshot to the head; the other victims also succumbed to gunshot wounds, and the fire was set to destroy evidence.

Police linked the killings to a burglary; stolen items taken from the property included flat-screen televisions, guns, and two sets of rims and tires. Three men in their early twenties were identified as suspects. One, Marvin Stringer, was killed during a shootout with police at a Red Roof Inn while officers were attempting to take the suspects into custody. Samuel Conway and Jeremy Pickney were arrested; Conway was convicted of capital murder and burglary in June 2011 and later retried and sentenced after a guilty plea, and Pickney pleaded guilty in 2011 to conspiracy to commit aggravated residential burglary and received a 50-year sentence.