EDMONTON— Sometime after midnight on Friday, Sapphira Nuttall, a volunteer with University of Alberta Safewalk, entered HUB, a collection of student residences and shops that spans more than a city block. At the very north end, she peered into a locked room behind a series of TD Canada Trust ATM machines. Inside were three security guards, blue-suited employees of G4S Security, who had arrived a few minutes before to make a delivery.
Ms. Nuttall looked in horror to see two dead guards locked inside the room, a third injured and screaming for help.
“Tonight, a friend and I discovered 3 shot security guards,” she said on Twitter. ‘‘Worst night ever.”
A fourth guard was found dead outside the building. They had been murdered in a robbery — and Edmonton police said Friday that the murder suspect was one of the security firm’s own, and issued warrants for the arrest of Travis Brandon Baumgartner, 21. He had been on the job three months, had trained for weeks in the use of a firearm and, according to a friend, was excited about the work, a short step away from his goal of ultimately becoming a police officer.
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Edmonton in shock as security guard wanted in connection to shooting deaths of co-workers still on the loose (4),Afternoon Updates:
1:15 pm EDT, June 16th, 2012 – Students question U of A’s emergency alert system
1:17 pm EDT, June 16th, 2012 – Security company reeling over U of A shooting
1:19 pm EDT, June 16th, 2012 — Gurney: Why did Alberta students receive no warning of the shooting?
Notes:
Re: 1:19 pm link — Matt is being beaten up in the comment area and I disapprove. Many years ago, while working at UWO, I had quite a “go around” with university officials over their “piss poor” security arrangements.
I won’t go into all the details but I noted how threadbare the situation was and quite surprisingly the university heard me and more to the point acted on my recommendations. Today said university (to the best of my knowledge) employs a full fledged on campus police force trained at the Aylmer Police College (OPC) and equipped to handle these types of calls.
Their on campus banks were just one of the security problems I noted. There were many more.
I support Matt as far as he has gone but it isn’t nearly far enough. I recommend that all universities take the present situation under advisement and if required solicit advice from UWO. They won’t regret it.
I hope that when this guy is eventually located and he resists arrest and even looks like he might be intent on running up the body count this too be his fitting end. Then bury his worthless carcass with all the rest of society’s garbage in a local landfill.
When he failed to show the officers both hands and they spotted a handgun in one of his hands, they opened fire. Freeland’s autopsy showed that he was shot 68 times. An investigation of the scene revealed that police fired 110 rounds.
“That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters.
http://crime.about.com/b/2006/10/02/florida-cop-killer-shot-68-times.htm
Yes…..one police sniper bullet would save society a lot of time, effort and money on this “person”.
Disagree. I want him taken alive. There are many questions yet to be answered and “dead men tell no tales”.
I will make one point — four armed guards and they were take by surprise. With proper training this would never have happened.
How did it?
Only the “shooter” knows.
“Enquiring minds” and all that.
I know you don’t mean taken alive at all cost, Jack. The scenario I envisioned was if he resisted with deadly force or it even appeared that he intended to do so. In that case turn him a sieve I say. No more good guys dead. Also, I believe that 1 took out 4 so easily because the shooter was one of their own. Just as police officers trust(ed) our partners to cover our backs rather than shoot us in the back so also would these guards without giving it a second thought. I really don’t know how you train to protect youself treachery from within. I can’t even imagine a work environment where you continually had to be wary of the possibility that your own partner might shoot you if you ever let your guard down in his presence. Unspeakable treachery is the answer to the question that I personally see no need to ever ask this scum.
Re: “Unspeakable treachery is the answer to the question that I personally see no need to ever ask this scum.”
I do. I want to know where the security failure occurred in order to protect these guards in future. We can’t do that if their “buddy” is dead.
You are partly correct. Nobody else should die to get the answers but if we have a choice we want to talk to this clown. I would begin by shoving toothpicks under his fingernails (joking).
“Enquiring minds” need to know.
Not that it really matters now but Daffy Duck was picked up trying to enter the US. Deep thinker – long range planner this guy is not nor is he big on details. Reports say that he still had his Mom’s plates on the vehicle he was driving.
Nationwide manhunt? 4 brothers gunned down, 3 dead. Every police officer in western Canada should have memorized the vehicle description and licence plate # for sure. I wonder how many police cruisers he passed right by on his way from Edmonton to the BC/U.S. border? Especially in B.C. with the out of province Alberta plates in plain sight! Every blue F150 pickup with Alberta plates should have attracted police like a moth to a flame. This vehicle should have stuck out like a strobe light on a dark night. Some manhunt. Colour me not impressed.