On March 9, 2024, at 1:57 a.m., Vermillion RCMP received a weapons complaint from a rural residence in Vermilion River County. Upon arrival, officers located a deceased person.
The deceased has been identified as Edmonton resident 47-year-old Edward Hubert Beharrell. 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.
RCMP have charged a 62-year-old individual, a resident of Edmonton, with manslaughter with a firearm.
The 62-year-old individual has been taken before a justice of the peace and remanded into custody with a next court date set for March 12, 2024, at the Alberta Court of Justice in Lloydminster, Alta.