Dave Alfrancis Wilson, the man who engaged the police in a four-hour shootout on Tuesday in Mandeville, Manchester, was deported from Canada at least on two separate occasions.
The 54-year-old unemployed man of Caledonia Road was fatally shot after he refused to surrender.
He is suspected of killing 31-year-old Adrian Bernard of Buena Vista, Manchester following a dispute over the cost of an item.
Wilson’s criminal record in Canada includes convictions for unarmed robberies in the 1990s.
Toronto Detective Sergeant Wilf Townley of the Holdup Squad, speaking at a press conference in February 2003, described Wilson and his accomplice as the ‘yo-yo bandits’, noting that they were in and out of Canada more than once after being deported.
The police said Wilson and his accomplice, who had been armed with a loaded 9mm handgun and a fully loaded 223-calibre assault rifle, surrendered to the police after being hold-up in a northwest end video store with several hostages.
The men, who wore bulletproof vests, overpowered guards in an armoured truck making a cash delivered to a bank.
Canadian police said when their getaway car failed to start, they fled on foot to the video store.
The Manchester police recovered an Omni Hbrid multi-calibre rifle with several 5.56 rounds, a Beretta 9mm pistol, as well as more than 500 assorted rounds of ammunition inside the Mandeville apartment where Wilson was killed.