A Surrey man convicted of murdering a woman and dumping her body on Burke Mountain, and who escaped from prison in March, has been located and arrested.
Shawn Merrick, 43, was spotted in Langley on the roof of a home from the RCMP Air 1 helicopter on Wednesday. He was arrested without incident.
Merrick was discovered missing from the Mission Institution during a head count on March 31 and soon became a suspect in six bank robberies in Surrey and Langley, prompting the Canadian Bankers Association to put up a $10,000 reward for information leading to Merrick's arrest.
At the time of his escape Merrick had been serving a life sentence for the brutal killing of Shelley Lynn DeVoe, also known as Shelley Lynn Russell, in the fall of 2006. He was charged in July 2007 and, while in custody, he was also sentenced to six years in jail in connection with nine bank robberies and one attempted robbery between December 2006 and January 2007.
Merrick would have been eligible for full parole on Jan. 3, 2017.
He has been taken back to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence on the murder charge.
