VERMILION – A man is dead, and a woman is facing a charge of manslaughter following an incident March 9 in Vermilion River County.
RCMP report police were called to a weapon’s complaint at a rural residence at 1:57 a.m. Upon arrival, officers located the body of a man who has been identified as 47-year-old Edward Hubert Beharrell of Edmonton.
“Based on the immediate suspicious nature of the death, police arrested the other occupant of the home, and the Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit was deployed and has taken carriage of the investigation,” according to a press release.
RCMP have charged Cherry Skrenkowich, 62, of Edmonton with manslaughter with a firearm.
Skrenkowich has been taken before a Justice of the Peace and remanded into custody with her next court date set for March 12 at the Alberta Court of Justice in Lloydminster.
