Fugitive in 1988 Murder in Canada Arrested
A Canadian man who had been sought for two years in the murder of an Alberta resident and the attempted murder of another was arrested Friday in West Hollywood, a deputy U.S. marshal said.
Ian Murray Berger, 37, was arrested without incident about 3:30 p.m. at the home of his grandmother and was being held at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, said Deputy Marshal Aldean Lee. An extradition hearing for Berger was scheduled for Monday, she said.
Berger had gone gunning for a business partner, Lee said, and instead shot to death another man and wounded a second one.
Cpl. Ray Gaultier of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would say only that Berger was wanted in the August, 1988, shootings of the two men in Pincher Creek, about 150 miles south of Calgary.
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