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Canada: Security guard in deadly armored car heist gets life sentence

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  • EDMONTON, Alberta — A former armored car guard charged with fatally shooting three of his colleagues and wounding a fourth as they emptied a bank machine has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 40 years.
    Travis Baumgartner, 22, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
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    Men were convicted of the rape and murder of a young woman aboard a bus, a crime that outraged Indians.
    Justice John Rooke sentenced Baumgartner Wednesday, calling him a coward and a cold-blooded killer.
    The G4S Cash Solutions crew was re-loading bank machines at a University of Alberta mall in June 2012 when, according to court documents, Baumgartner shot his colleagues in the head as they stood with their backs to him. He then returned to the waiting armored truck and shot a fourth co-worker.
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    Security guard death probe stalls

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    CHARANPREET SINGH DHALIWAL
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    CHARANPREET SINGH DHALIWAL: Was found dead at a West Auckland building site.

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    No-one else is likely to be charged over the death of an Auckland security guard after a jury found the man accused of his murder not guilty, police say.
    A 27-year-old man, whose name is suppressed, was yesterday acquitted in the High Court in Auckland for the murder of Charanpreet Dhaliwal.
    Dhaliwal was killed in November 2011 on the first night in a new job as a security guard for CNE Security at a site in Henderson.
    He was found with "horrific injuries" to his head, and his skull had "shattered like an eggshell" after a "highly energetic assault with a weapon", a pathologist told the trial.
    Police completed an "intense" investigation to find Dhaliwal's killer.
    They alleged the accused, while drinking with three other men, first assaulted a bouncer then ran to the site where Dhaliwal was working and struck him repeatedly with a piece of wood.
    However, the accused denied responsibility.
    The defence case was that the accused was being blamed for the murder by three other men, who belonged to the same gang.
    The accused was found guilty of assaulting the bouncer and was sentenced to six months' jail to be served cumulatively with a current seven-year jail sentence.
    Detective Inspector Bruce Scott said today that while Dhaliwal's file remained open, police would not be doing any more inquiries at the moment.