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Suspect arrested in cross-border manhunt has history of running from police
CBC
A suspect arrested during a cross-border manhunt following a fatal police shooting Wednesday has a history of leading officers on chases and stealing motor vehicles, according to court records.
David Frank Burling, 29, was arrested by RCMP officers Wednesday afternoon near the community of Springside, Sask., just northwest of the city of Yorkton following a manhunt in the southeast part of that province that started in Manitoba earlier in the day.
On Wednesday, Saskatchewan Mounties said Burling fled from incidents in Winnipeg and Niverville, Man. overnight.
Court records show he has a lengthy criminal record and that he's run from police before, with five convictions for that offence. The most recent conviction stems from an incident in June 2022 in the Portage la Prairie area which he just finished serving time in custody for earlier this year.
A judge who agreed to a joint recommendation for a two-and-a-half-year sentence for the Portage incident was told during a court hearing it was normal behaviour for Burling.
In this latest incident another man, who was shot by Winnipeg police, was found dead at around 3 a.m. inside a black Ford-350 in a gas station parking lot in the area of Drovers Run in Niverville, where a woman was taken into custody.
Winnipeg police said the shooting followed a pursuit that began when they got a report from RCMP of a stolen vehicle southwest of Winnipeg around 12:40 a.m. Shortly after, a Winnipeg police patrol unit spotted the stolen truck, a black Ford F-350, near Ness Avenue and Linwood Street, in west Winnipeg.
The police service's helicopter tracked the vehicle for about an hour, before it ended up at a parking lot on College Crescent in Otterburne, in the Providence University College area, just south of Niverville.
As a police cruiser entered the lot, it was rammed by the stolen vehicle, after which there was an "engagement" in which police fired their guns, and the suspects fled the scene in the truck, Winnipeg police said.
The police helicopter continued tracking their vehicle, following it to a parking lot on Drovers Run in Niverville, where the driver of the stolen truck got into another vehicle and drove off.
Deputy Chief Art Stannard, acting chief of the Winnipeg Police Service, said officers have had contact in the past with the suspects.
Police didn't say if or how the people in the truck knew each other. Neither RCMP or Winnipeg police provided the names of the woman arrested or the man killed in Niverville.
Burling was arrested around 2:30 p.m. Manitoba time by Saskatchewan RCMP along with another woman who was with him in a silver vehicle which was stopped by officers.
Police in Saskatchewan had been looking for Burling in a green 2016 Subaru CrossTrek earlier in the day.