A funeral service for Larry Hostetter, the  40-year-old Montague County Sheriff’s deputy who died after an early Monday morning shooting at his home in Nocona, will be at 11 a.m. on Feb. 12 at the Cowboy Church in Henrietta with burial to follow at the church cemetery. Hostetter had been a law officer since 2000 and a deputy with the sheriff’s office since January 2013. He lived at the Nocona residence with his wife Jennifer, along with his four children. Please see his full obituary in today’s Bowie News and at bowienewsonline.com.

At a 9 a.m. Monday press conference, Nocona Police Chief Kent Holcomb and Montague County Sheriff Paul Cunningham revealed few details of the shooting incident other than to say the Texas Rangers were investigating an “officer-involved shooting.”

Nocona Police were called to the Larry Hostetter home in the 200 block of Jordan Drive shortly after midnight Monday morning on a disturbance call.

The Nocona officer, who was not identified by the chief, shot Hostetter during the incident. Holcomb said the officer has been put on administrative leave per department policy. He was uninjured.

Sheriff Paul Cunningham confirmed Deputy Larry Brian Hostetter, 40, died from injuries he received at his residence. Hostetter was not on duty at the time.

The deputy was pronounced dead at the Nocona General Hospital at 1:03 a.m. His body was transported to the Dallas County Medical Examiner for an autopsy. Pictured:

Monday morning law enforcement vehicles blocked the road leading up to the Larry Hostetter residence on Jordan Drive where Texas Rangers were investigated the shooting death of a deputy. Photo by Barbara Green.

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