Proulx charged, SIU continue investigation

The 39-year-old victim of a police shooting in Kenora, Ont., is facing charges relating to the June 7 incident.
Helen Proulx, a Grassy Narrows woman living in Kenora, was charged with assault with a weapon, assaulting police with a weapon, uttering threats to cause death and possessing a weapon dangerous to the public.
Proulx was shot twice by an Ontario Provincial Police officer during what has been described as “an altercation” and was treated at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre. Witnesses at the scene said she was shot in the arm and pelvis.
According to police, the female officer responded to a domestic incident on First Street South around 8:30 p.m. when a woman wielding a knife confronted her and shots were fired.
She was later transferred to a hospital in Kenora.
With any incident where injuries are incurred as the result of a discharged police firearm, the province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating.
SIU spokeswoman Monica Hudon said every investigation is different and there is no timetable for its completion.
“It’s still under investigation,” Hudon said, adding investigators are trying to put together all the details about what happened.