UPDATE: Criminal histories of Bostian & Myers

FOX16 News has learned new information on the criminal life and death of Todd Bostian.  Bostian is accused of a multi-county crime spree last week that ended in Hot Springs in a hail of gunfire.  Both Bostian and his hostage had recent run-ins with the law.

Two Garland County Sheriff’s Department officers are on administrative leave for Friday's shootout at a home on Lake Hamilton.  A sheriff's sniper killed 32-year old crime spree suspect Todd Bostian.

We still do not know whether Bostian or a sheriff's deputy fired the shot that killed Bostian's 18-year old ex-girlfriend Kasey Myers.  Today, state police took more evidence to the state crime lab for examination.

According to court documents obtained by FOX16 News, Bostian was arrested in April after a high speed chase through Garland and Montgomery counties.  He entered a not guilty plea on felony fleeing and DWI on June 16th and was free on bond at the time of last week's home invasion, kidnapping, and car thefts.
 
And trouble followed Myers too.  The pregnant teen had two convictions for commercial burglary in Hot Springs in January.  And Garland County prosecutors had filed a motion to revoke her probation on July 1 because she was associating with a known felon, Todd Bostian.

These new details are now footnotes to a story with a tragic end.  Myers' family is saying Bostian kidnapped her at gunpoint Wednesday and used her as a human shield during the standoff Friday morning.

The state crime lab is working to determine which bullet killed Myers but assistant director Rick Gallagher tells FOX16 News all those results will stay under seal until the state police investigation wraps up.

UPDATE: Bostian and hostage killed in standoff

The man wanted for burglary, robbery and kidnapping is dead after a standoff with police. Police shot and killed Todd Bostian in Hot Springs Friday morning. The woman he took hostage, Kasey Myers was also killed.

Crime scene tape is gone, but there is still a lot of work for police on this one. "There was a lot of gunshots and a lot of screaming," Lt Rodney Neighbors said.

Police ended the standoff with 32-year-old Todd Bostian around three Friday morning. He came out firing at deputies; a Garland County Sheriff's Department sniper took him out.

"It's a situation that more or less went from bad to worse," Lt. Rodney Neighbors says. "He wouldn't respond to any negotiators or anything, so we just ended up with a bad outcome."

Thirty minutes earlier, 18-year-old Kasey Myers, believed to be Bostian's hostage was shot and killed.

The female homeowner Rhonda Keck is recovering after being shot in the leg. The ordeal shook up the quiet, gated community of Driftwood Estates on Lake Hamilton.

Carolyn Massanelli said she watched the news last night and heard that the suspect, who'd been on a 2 day crime spree, was in Hot Springs.

"Never did it cross my mind that he was in my neighborhood," Massanelli says.

But he was. Bostian parked a stolen lime green Ford Mustang at the house. The Garland County Sheriff's Department says the homeowners knew him. But witnesses inside say they didn't know he was wanted by authorities statewide, until the home was surrounded.

"We were told to stay in our house and keep our doors locked," Massanelli says.

Life saving advice. Hours later, under a hail of gunfire, Bostian and Myers, who'd been used as a human shield, were dead.

"We knew he was armed, that's why our negotiators kept trying to talk him out," Neighbors says. "In fact they would still be out here trying to talk to him, but he's the one that initiated all the action."

Lt. Neighbors says after Myers and the homeowner was shot, a sniper got the green light to take out Bostian, but they don't know if he was armed at that point or not.

Game and Fish were also on the scene.

Suspect spotted at Wal-Mart

Bostian, 32, led police on a chase from Sherwood to North Little Rock Wednesday afternoon. Police say Bostian stopped in Malvern Thursday morning and may have been holding two victims hostage. Police confirmed Bostian was spotted at the Wal-Mart parking lot in Malvern around 10 Thursday morning. FOX16 spoke exclusively with U.S. Marshal Robert Howard about their efforts to catch Bostian.

Wednesday night he was believed to be in a silver minivan with a handicapped license plate stolen from a home in North Little Rock. Police say he entered the home and made contact with a woman somehow making sure she couldn't contact authorities.

“When the door to door search was in operation they were knocking on doors and if folks answered the doors, they would make them aware of what was going on and make sure everyone was ok. But if they knocked on the door and no one answered, they had no grounds to break into that house to check into it," Howard said.

"Initially we thought the individual was contained in an area there between McCain mall and I-40. And then it became apparent that the suspect possibly fled the area," Howard tells us.

An all out search Wednesday afternoon led officers, deputies, and marshals away from North Little Rock.

"Later on in the night a possible sighting, actually a confirmed sighting, put him in another location in the Ward area," Howard explained.

That's where investigators say Todd Bostian picked up an 18-year-old Kasey Myers, who was pregnant, forcing her to come with him as he dodged authorities. Thursday morning police say someone spotted Bostian at a Wal-Mart in Malvern.