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Alam Gabriel Buoc’s short-lived life on the run came to an end on Thursday night when Ottawa police arrested him at a west-end gas station, just a seven-minute drive from where he’s accused of killing two men and sending another to hospital Monday.

Buoc, 29, was charged Friday afternoon with two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Abdulrahman Al-Shammari, 26, and Dirie Olol, 27. (He is also charged on one count of attempted murder in the shooting of Talal Al-Shammari, 27.)

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Olol was shot in the forehead. His body was found inside a car, its engine still running, on Wayne Avenue East. Abdulrahman Al-Shammari was found lying on a Tavistock Road driveway with a gunshot wound to the chest.

The victims’ grieving families have described them as good, kind men.

Their accused killer, captured just one day after lead detective Sgt. Chris O’Brien got authorized murder warrants at the Elgin Street courthouse, is a convicted cocaine trafficker who has a thing for handguns.