Police arrest suspect after AB mental-health worker killed
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A female Alberta mental-health caregiver was found dead over the weekend and the person she was caring for has been arrested in her homicide.
The body of Valerie Diane Wolski, 41, was found inside a Camrose home on Sunday morning. Wolski worked as a caregiver for the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Following an autopsy, her death was ruled a homicide, said Insp. Lee Foreman, of the Camrose Police Service.
Foreman said police have a person in custody but because of the individual's limited mental capacity, further judicial action has not been taken.
He said police will have to consult with the Crown prosecutor's office and investigate further before proceeding.
Police said Wolski was working in the home where she was killed but did not live there.
Camrose is located about 85 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.
This isn't the first case of it's kind in our province. In August 1991, mental-health therapist Inette John was stabbed to death by a former counselling client on the fifth floor of a mental-health clinic on 108th street. In November 2002, a 16-year-old killed and sexually assaulted his youth-care worker while they were on a walk from his group home in Lethbridge.
