Police arrested the redhead at a downtown shooting gallery; he had just shot his 23rd bull's-eye in a row with a .22 caliber rifle. Baumann said, "I'm my own suspect." He claimed to have been in a coma for several weeks. He said that he woke up from the coma on May 3 with his rifle missing and heard about a suspect matching his description. He then hitchhiked to Los Angeles, feeling like he was running from murder. Baumann said that he was discharged from the AAF in 1945 for being a psychoneurotic. The chief of police said, "I feel that the man is certainly a mental case. The Texarkana killings could have been the work of a mental case, and so far as we know, this man could have done it. But we have absolutely no facts. They will have to be developed if they exist." Gonzaullas stated that several parts of the man's story had little basis in fact.