Ex-boyfriend convicted of aggravated first-degree murder in WWU student’s shooting death
After less than a day of deliberations, a Whatcom County jury has convicted a Burlington man of aggravated premeditated first-degree murder in the shooting death of a Western Washington University student in August 2019. Rigoberto Galvan, 24, was on trial in Whatcom County Superior Court for aggravated first-degree murder (domestic violence) and first-degree burglary while armed with a deadly weapon for the Aug. 14, 2019, death of 22-year-old Stephanie Cresswell-Brenner.