Local connection to shooting
Posted Jun 17, 2012 09:47:51 AM.
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The lone survivor of an armoured car shooting in Alberta has roots in Waterloo Region.
Matthew Schuman was born in Cambridge, and is a Corporal with the Canadian Forces.
CFB Edmonton Public Affairs Officer, Major Lena Angell writes to 570 News, “(Schuman) joined the Canadian Forces in 2009. He was recruited at Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre Kitchener Detachment.”
“He is an Air Force member posted to CFB Edmonton. He is a full time fire fighter.”
Schuman remains in critical condition, and was off duty from the armed forces when the shooting occurred, while working as an armed guard with G4S. Three of his co-workers were killed.
U.S. border guards arrested the accused, Travis Baumgartner, 21, as he tried to cross over from B.C. into the American town of Lynden.
