RCMP have released more information related to an incident where Winnipeg police fatally shot a man in rural Manitoba early Wednesday, including the charges against the suspect who survived.
RCMP officers in Saskatchewan contacted their Manitoba colleagues at about 8 p.m. Tuesday regarding a truck that was stolen from Cypress River on May 22.
Saskatchewan RCMP had seen the truck near Carlyle, Sask., and it was believed the vehicle was headed to Manitoba and that there could be a firearm in the vehicle, Manitoba RCMP said in a news release Tuesday.
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RCMP forensics officers at the gas station in Niverville where the stolen truck stopped after the shooting early Wednesday.
The truck was found heading east on Highway 2 in Manitoba and later near Oak Bluff. RCMP detachments and the Winnipeg Police Service were notified.
The Winnipeg Police Service said Wednesday that their officers shot at the truck after it rammed a WPS vehicle in Otterburne, where officers had pursued it from the city.
A 30-year-old man who was a passenger in the vehicle was found dead in the stolen truck at a Niverville gas station. A woman, 34, was arrested there. The driver had left in another vehicle.
David Frank Burling, 29, who police said was the driver of the truck that was shot, was arrested in Saskatchewan on Wednesday afternoon. A 37-year-old woman was also arrested.
Both women were released and not charged.
Burling is charged with two counts of assaulting a peace officer with a weapon and single counts of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, dangerous driving and failing to stop. He remains in custody.
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