Sat Jun 16, 2012, 09:59 PM

applegrove (58,376 posts)

Suspect in Canada killings caught at the border

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Travis Baumgartner, the man accused of killing three people during a robbery attempt at a Canadian university, was arrested Saturday by U.S. border officials in Washington, police said.

He was caught while attempting to cross into the United States at the Lynden, Washington, U.S.-Canada border, south of Abbotsford, British Columbia.

"We're grateful to the border officials at Lynden, Washington, for their excellent work in arresting a man we believe was armed and extremely dangerous," Bob Hassel, superintendent of the Edmonton Police criminal investigations division, said in a statement.

Baumgartner will be brought back to Edmonton, the statement read.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/16/world/americas/canada-university-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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11 replies	Author	Time	Post
Suspect in Canada killings caught at the border (Original post)	applegrove	Jun 2012	OP
Good job, border patrol. One less nut in the US!	williesgirl	Jun 2012	#1
Nice work! It's an itsy-bitsy crossing.	nolabear	Jun 2012	#2
He was coming from Alberta	Art_from_Ark	Jun 2012	#6
NO kidding.	laundry_queen	Jun 2012	#8
Robbing your own armoured car isn't indicative of an excess of brilliance. (nt)	Posteritatis	Jun 2012	#10
Good.	emilyg	Jun 2012	#3
What kind of dumbass flees Canadian justice by trying to sneak into the United States?	alcibiades_mystery	Jun 2012	#4
Good job, border patrol. Nice area up there and bet it was a lovely day, too.	freshwest	Jun 2012	#5
Indeed good job	paranoid floyd	Jun 2012	#7
Baumgartner murdered the brother of one of my crewmates	OnlinePoker	Jun 2012	#9
Very sorry to hear that	paranoid floyd	Jun 2012	#11

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Sat Jun 16, 2012, 10:07 PM

williesgirl (3,487 posts)

1. Good job, border patrol. One less nut in the US!

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Sat Jun 16, 2012, 11:05 PM

nolabear (14,667 posts)

2. Nice work! It's an itsy-bitsy crossing.

Probably thought to avoid the big one in Blaine. I'm always amazed at how an entire border can be maintained. Seems impossible.

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Sun Jun 17, 2012, 02:40 AM

Art_from_Ark (16,883 posts)

6. He was coming from Alberta

so it's a mystery why he went way over to Abbortsford, BC, when there are any number of lightly-traveled crossings on the US-Alberta border, or even in eastern BC. For that matter, why was he even trying to get into the US?

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Sun Jun 17, 2012, 04:43 AM

laundry_queen (4,155 posts)

8. NO kidding.

And he was in the same truck. No passport. Yeah, um, dude, you're not getting across like that.

Glad they caught him - they were warning rural residents around where I live (near Edmonton) to keep an eye out in case he tried to get on their property and hide out. Not a real comfortable feeling. I'll sleep better tonight.
So sad for the families. Unbelievably tragic.

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Sun Jun 17, 2012, 10:30 AM

Posteritatis (17,253 posts)

10. Robbing your own armoured car isn't indicative of an excess of brilliance. (nt)

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Sat Jun 16, 2012, 11:28 PM

emilyg (22,742 posts)

3. Good.

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Sat Jun 16, 2012, 11:34 PM

alcibiades_mystery (28,385 posts)

4. What kind of dumbass flees Canadian justice by trying to sneak into the United States?

Hey, dummy. Here, we just shoot people on sight.

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Sun Jun 17, 2012, 12:06 AM

freshwest (31,281 posts)

5. Good job, border patrol. Nice area up there and bet it was a lovely day, too.

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Sun Jun 17, 2012, 02:48 AM

paranoid floyd (158 posts)

7. Indeed good job

It's heartbreaking to see the damage this piece of shit has wrought. The pictures of the deceased men with their children is bad enough, but to see photos of a bride, beautiful in her gown just 3 months into her marriage...I have no way to explain this.

Thank you to the excellent staff at this boarder crossing. You have aided the families in their grieving process.

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Response to paranoid floyd (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 07:57 AM

OnlinePoker (1,223 posts)

9. Baumgartner murdered the brother of one of my crewmates

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We had just gotten into port after a week of work-ups (Navy training) when my mate got the news. He is one of the nicest guys on the ship and tragic that it could happen to his family.

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Response to OnlinePoker (Reply #9)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 10:41 AM

paranoid floyd (158 posts)

11. Very sorry to hear that

What an incredible loss, and for what. What did he gain by destroying so many lives?

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