NEWS
Funeral service Thursday for deputy killed in Nocona officer-involved shooting.
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.
Read the full story in the mid-week News
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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