(Karen Madden, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune) The Wood County district attorney has decided there will be no criminal charges against law enforcement officers involved in a Dec. 8 incident in Grand Rapids that resulted in a woman’s death.
According to Karen Madden with the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, Wood County District Attorney Jonathan Barnett, after reviewing reports from the Wisconsin Department of Justice, decided not to charge the one Grand Rapids officer, two Wood County deputies and two Wisconsin Rapids officers involved in the incident.
At about 11:40 p.m. Dec. 8, a Grand Rapids police officer responded to do a welfare check at a home in the 7500 block of Kellner Road in Grand Rapids, according to a news release sent to media the next day by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
When the woman was uncooperative, officers from the Wisconsin Rapids Police Department and Wood County Sheriff’s Office responded to help. The officers took the woman into custody, but she became unresponsive a short time later while they were still at the house, according to the news release.
An ambulance took the woman to Aspirus Wisconsin Rapids Hospital. A doctor pronounced the woman dead at the hospital. The reports released Thursday evening by the Wisconsin Department of Justice included the name of the woman who died in the incident, Sewayna E. Bombagi. According to her obituary, she was 53 years old when she died.
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