Edmonton - Travis Baumgartner was sentenced to life imprisonment for three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. He was the first person to be sentenced under a change in the law that increased parole ineligibility periods for multiple murderers.
On Monday, Baumgartner, 22, appeared in an Edmonton courtroom for what was to be the beginning of his trial on three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and four counts of robbery. Baumgartner instead entered pleas of guilty to one count of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. An Agreed Statement of Facts was read to the court to support the guilty pleas. In June 2012, Baumgartner worked as an armed security guard in Edmonton for G4S. On June 14, he argued with his mother over rent money he owed. At the time, he owed about $58,000 and had 26 cents in the bank. He told his mother she would get her money and told her not to worry—he was not coming home. Baumgartner then went to work. Shortly after midnight on June 15, he and four other employees went to the HUB Mall at the University of Alberta to empty ATMs. Three of the guards went into an enclosed vestibule where the machines were located while a fourth stayed by the armoured vehicle. Baumgartner went into the vestibule, took out his work-issued revolver, and shot the three guards at point blank range. Two were killed while one was critically injured. The 21-year-old then went to the vehicle and shot and killed the fourth co-worker. Baumgartner took the armoured truck and drove it to G4S where he had left his truck. He took the money and drove off in his own truck. He went home and left a pile of cash in his mother's kitchen. As Digital Journal reported, police immediately named Baumgartner, the fifth employee sent to the HUB Mall, as a suspect. A manhunt was under way. About 36 hours later, Baumgartner was apprehended when he tried to cross into the United States at Lyden, Washington. He had no passport, and a search of his truck revealed approximately $330,000 in cash. No weapons were found. At his sentencing hearing, a joint submission was made for a sentence of life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 40 years. Justice John Rooke adjourned the proceedings until Wednesday and when court resumed, the justice followed the recommendation of both the prosecutor and defence counsel and sentenced Baumgartner to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 40 years. The sentence was the harshest one imposed in Canada since the days of capital punishment. The last executions in Canada took place shortly after midnight on Dec. 11, 1962, when convicted killers Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas were hanged at Toronto's Don Jail. The death penalty was abolished in Canada in 1976. The offences of capital and non-capital murder were replaced with first-degree and second-degree murder. Both carried mandatory life sentences and those convicted of first-degree murder were not eligible for parole for 25 years. The parole ineligibility period for second-degree murder was between 10 and 25 years, set by the judge. Canada's Criminal Code provides that sentence cannot be imposed consecutively to a life sentence. That means the maximum parole ineligibility period was 25 years, regardless of how many murders a person was convicted of. On March 23, 2011, the Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act was enacted into law. This law allows the parole ineligibility periods of anyone convicted of a second or subsequent murder, to run consecutively. Baumgartner was the first multiple killer to be sentenced under this legislation. In handing down the sentence, Rooke described the murders as "some of the most horrendous crimes that anyone can imagine. These assassinations and executions were carried out by a cold-blooded killer, all with the simple motive of robbery." The parole ineligibility period began when Baumgartner was first detained on the murder charges. He will be eligible to apply for parole in June 2052 when he is 61-years-old.
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