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ensued as Baumgartner fled Edmonton, dropping off money for his two friends and mother. While at a friend's home, Baumgartner destroyed his cell phone so that it could not be used to track him. After eventually hearing news reports in the media, both friends notified police and returned the money.
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account: “I wonder if I’d make the six o’clock news if I just started popping people off.” According to a friend, Baumgartner would tell him that he would rob his coworkers, in a jokingly manner. In a police interview, Baumgartner told a detective he did not get along with his coworkers, and that
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with his mother. Baumgartner had been hired by G4S Cash Solutions two months prior to the attack, and had no known disciplinary problems there. It is a requirement from the security agency to obtain a federal firearms licence, which includes a background check being run on the applicant.
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At the time of the shooting, Baumgartner had 26 cents in his bank account and owed $ 58,000 to his mother and two friends, due to debt over the purchase of a car and other items, and that he felt he needed to owe money to a friend due to years of being "forked over" money by him.
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officer in a British Columbia jail cell, saying: “I did it all. I killed those people and robbed their truck.” On June 20, Baumgartner was flown in a RCMP aircraft to Edmonton, where he was taken into
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Several minutes into midnight, Baumgartner perpetrated the crime while on duty at HUB Mall, a student residence and indoor food court, during a routine circuit with four coworkers to replenish
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64,000 on his mother's kitchen table, and then left the Edmonton area. He swapped his licence plate for one from his mother's vehicle and drove away, heading west to the resort town of
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On June 15, 2012, 21-year-old security guard Travis Baumgartner, an employee of G4S Cash Solutions, shot four of his coworkers, three fatally, in the HUB Mall building on the campus of
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for 40 years, until 2052. At the time of Baumgartner's sentencing, it was the harshest sentence imposed on anyone in the history of the Canadian judicial system since 1962, when
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for the deaths of Ilesic and Shegelski, and a single charge of attempted murder. On September 11, he was sentenced by Associate Chief Justice John Rooke to
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On September 9, 2013, Baumgartner pleaded guilty to the one charge of first-degree murder, for the death of Rejano, two counts of
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and money, and gave the cash or left it at the homes of his mother and two friends. Baumgartner was arrested the next day in
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On September 9, 2013, Baumgartner pleaded guilty of three counts of murder, and on September 11, 2013, was sentenced to
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they were using and shot and killed another co-worker. All of the four victims were shot in the back of the heads, at
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for forty years, one of the longest or strictest prison sentences imposed on anyone in modern Canadian history.
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around the city of Edmonton, as a part of their employment with G4S Cash Solutions. While refilling the
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At the time of the shooting, Travis Brandon Baumgartner (born May 16, 1991) was living in
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located behind the machines, before locking them inside. He then approached the
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A fourth guard, a male, was severely injured in the shootings, sustaining
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Several days after the killings, Baumgartner confessed to an undercover
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On June 1, 2012, Baumgartner posted the following status post on his
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while he was trying to cross the border at the Port of Lyndon near
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range. He then stole the vehicle and fled the scene.
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ATMs, Baumgartner shot three of his coworkers with a
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Index

University of Alberta
MDT
Armed robbery
workplace shooting
heist
school shooting
mass shooting
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revolver
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
armored truck
British Columbia
life in prison
parole
ATMs
TD
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vault
armored car
point blank
brain injuries
manhunt
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Banff
Seattle, Washington
MDT
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Langley, British Columbia

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