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No criminal charges to be issued against officer in death of Helmut Wihowski
No criminal charges to be issued against officer in death of Helmut Wihowski
WASHINGTON COUNTY — The Washington County District Attorney has determined no criminal charges will be issued against the officer responsible for the death of 58-year-old Helmut Wihowski in the Village of Jackson last month. Authorities are also releasing dash cam video and audio from that day.
Jackson police dispatched officers to a home on Stonewall Drive for a domestic violence-related incident on July 1st.
Scene of officer-involved shooting in Jackson
Police say the call was for a woman whose boyfriend was threatening to kill her. The woman managed to call police from an office in the home, before the man came at her with a knife.
The man was still threatening the woman with the knife when police came running in.
The Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI) case report says police found the man, 58-year-old Helmut Wihowski, holding a knife to the woman's upper chest while cornering her in a shower stall.
Dash cam audio captured what happened next.
The DCI report says the woman told authorities she would have died if the officer had not shot Wihowski.
Authorities attempted life-saving measures on Wihowski, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) led the investigation. File records on this case can now be viewed on the Wisconsin Department of Justice website.
The officer involved in this case has been a law enforcement officer since 2006 and a Jackson Police Officer since 2008.