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A photo from the Edmonton Police Service in Canada shows Travis Brandon Baumgartner, 21.

A man sought in a fatal armored-car robbery at the University of Alberta was arrested Saturday at a U.S. border crossing, police told Canadian media.

Edmonton police Sgt. Dave Reitzel said Travis Baumgartner, 21, was stopped at the crossing in Lynden, Wash., the CBC reported. The crossing is southeast of Vancouver, British Columbia, and north of Seattle.

Baumgartner had been sought since the four armored-car guards he was working with were shot at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, early Friday. Three of the guards were killed, one critically wounded. No students were involved, police said.  

Police said that Baumgartner was alone in a Ford F-150 pickup when he was stopped and that they found money in the truck. Reuters reported that Mike Milne, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman in Seattle, said Baumgartner had a backpack with $334,000 in Canadian currency.

Reuter reported that Scott Pattison, a spokesman for the Edmonton Police Service, said no extradition proceedings were necessary because Baumgartner had been caught at the border. Customs officials said Baumgartner would be transferred to Canadian custody Saturday night.

Baumgartner has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. He and four other guards with G4S Cash Solutions were loading money into bank machines on the campus when the shooting occurred, police said. Michelle Shegelski , 26; Eddie Rejano, 39; and Brian Ilesic, 35, were killed, The Associated Press reported. Another guard was critically injured. 

Baumgartner lived with his mother and step-sister in Sherwood Park, just east of Edmonton, the AP said.

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Police investigate the scene of an armored-car robbery at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Friday.

Three people were killed and one is in critical condition after a shooting at the scene of an apparent armed robbery at the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton, Canada early Friday, according to reports.

“It was an apparent armed robbery of armored vehicle and or vehicles,” police spokesman Scott Pattison told the National Post of Canada.

“The university was quickly put into lockdown, it has its own protocols and it remains in lockdown now,” he said. “It’s a crime scene so students are required to stay remain in their dorms.”

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Police investigate the scene of an armored-car robbery at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Friday.

No students were involved in the shooting, he added.

Pattison told CTV the victims are all thought to be employees of an armored vehicle security company. "The suspect and or suspects remain at large at this time," he told the station.

The shooting happened shortly after midnight in the Hub Mall area, which is a combination of student residences and shops, according to an Associated Press report.

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