article_snippet.sent: The guard, identified as Lawrence Buckner, died at a hospital in Cheverly, Maryland, at 7:19 p.m. Thursday - his age is not known .
article_snippet.sent: The Census Bureau guard who was shot, Lawrence Buckner, 59, died at a hospital in Cheverly, Maryland, at 7.19pm Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: Buckner had served for about eight years in the U.S. Army and worked in the security field for more than two decades, according to a Friday statement from Hunt Valley, Maryland-based company Master Security, where Buckner was a contractor working for the federal government.
article_snippet.sent: Buckner leaves behind a wife, son and four grandchildren as well as a large extended family.
article_snippet.sent: Suzanne Spaulding, the undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate in the Department of Homeland Security, wrote in an e-mail to employees on Friday morning 'Officer Buckner fatally placed himself in harm's way to ensure the employees and occupants of the facility remained safe against this criminal activity,' reports the Washington Post.
highlights_snippet.sent: Guard, died at a hospital in Cheverly, Maryland .
  