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Suspect in Canada Shooting Arrested at Border

Travis Baumgartner suspected of killing three guards in Friday shooting

By the Associated Press

Posted Jun 17, 2012 6:00 AM CDT

(AP) – The man wanted in a deadly armored car heist at a university in western Canada that left three armed guards dead was arrested at gunpoint by US border officials in Washington state, police said yesterday. An Edmonton police chief said that Travis Baumgartner was stopped near a border crossing in Lynden, Wash., southwest of Abbotsford, British Columbia.

Officials said Baumgartner was in his pickup truck and alone. Police said a sum of money was found in the truck when Baumgartner was arrested. Police had earlier called it a "significant" sum. Baumgartner, 21, had been on the run since Friday when four armed guards were gunned down, three of them fatally. He faces three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.

Flowers are left at a makeshift memorial near the operations offices of G4S, a security company, in Edmonton, Alberta, on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Three guards were killed in a shootout after an attempted armed robbery at a student residence at the University of Alberta on Friday.
Flowers are left at a makeshift memorial near the operations offices of G4S, a security company, in Edmonton, Alberta, on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Three guards were killed in a shootout after an attempted...   (Ian Jackson)
This undated photo provided by the Edmonton Police Service shows Travis Brandon Baumgartner, 21, who has been accused of shooting four people in western Canada.
This undated photo provided by the Edmonton Police Service shows Travis Brandon Baumgartner, 21, who has been accused of shooting four people in western Canada.   (AP Photo/Edmonton Police Service via The Canadian Press)
Travis Baumgartner is taken out of a van by Canadian Border Services officers at the Aldergrove, British Columbia border crossing yesterday.
Travis Baumgartner is taken out of a van by Canadian Border Services officers at the Aldergrove, British Columbia border crossing yesterday.   (AP Photo/Jonathan Hayward, The Canadian Press)
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