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Hot Springs - Three Garland County deputies have been placed on temporary leave with pay pending an investigation into the shooting death of a homicide suspect at a Hot Springs hotel last week.
Sheriff Larry Sanders says the action is standard procedure while the Nov. 19 shooting death of 22-year-old Marvin Stringer is investigated by the Hot Springs Police Department.
All three deputies are members of the Garland County Sheriff's Department Tactical Response Team. One TRT member, Jason Lawrence, was shot and injured during the incident at the National Park Inn. Sanders did not release the names of the deputies who were placed on leave.
Stringer was a suspect in the Nov. 12 killings of five people during a botched robbery in Pearcy.
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