A 30-year-old Prince George man was sentenced Monday to a further 189 days in jail and one year probation for shooting at a person in Quesnel in 2013.
Eric John Vining was issued the term during a hearing in B.C. Supreme Court on one count of discharging a firearm at a person with intent to wound.
Vining, who had remained in custody since his arrest on June 21, 2013, had faced 12 charges, including attempted murder. Vining was also sentenced to one day in jail for two firearms-related offences and assessed $600 in victim surcharges. All the other charges were stayed.
At the time of his arrest, RCMP said they were called at about 10:45 a.m. to a West Fraser Drive home in the community of 10,000 people 116 kilometres south of Prince George.
Police determined a man had pulled out a handgun and demanded money before pulling the trigger.
No one was struck and the suspect took off in a pickup truck that was found engulfed in flames on Marsh Road in Quesnel less than 90 minutes later.
Shortly before midnight the same day, Vining was arrested in Prince George when RCMP crime reduction team members saw Vining in the back yard of a 300 block Freeman Street home.
RCMP said Vining pointed a laser-sighted firearm at two officers and a loaded semi-automatic SKS rifle was found in the vicinity after his arrest. It proved to have been stolen from a home 10 days earlier, RCMP said.
A large quantity of dried marijuana, a small quantity of methamphetamine, a machete and ammunition were also found in the Freeman Street home, RCMP also said.
Vining is well known to police and the courts.
In 2004, he was sentenced to two years in jail for dangerous driving causing death for an August 2003 incident in which he drove a stolen car in to a lamppost at the intersection of Highways 16 and 97, killing his passenger, Christopher Brown.
Starting in October 2007, his record shows several convictions for various theft and weapons related offences for which he's been sentenced to jail terms ranging from 15 days to four months and had been on Prince George RCMP's prolific offender list for more than three years when he was apprehended.
