Vancouver police said Monday they had re-arrested a convicted killer with a history of violence who walked away from his halfway house.
Steven Frederickson, 56, was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for violating the terms of his long-term supervision order, after disappearing April 19.
Police said he was arrested Friday near Burrard and Davie streets in Downtown Vancouver.
In a media release last week, police described Frederickson as “violent” and “posing a risk to public safety.”
In 2016, Fredrickson was convicted of manslaughter for the 2010 beating death of Robert-Jan Planje, a transgender man whose mobile home he was living in at the time.
Prosecutors at the time had sought to have him declared a dangerous offender, but the sentencing judge ruled the Crown had not met the criminal standard for the designation.
The judge instead handed him a 10 year prison sentence and ordered a 10-year long-term offender status, which placed him under court-ordered supervision for a decade.
Court records show previous convictions dating back to 1984, including aggravated assault, forcible confinement, possession of a weapon and mischief.
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