Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is investigating an officer involved shooting which took place in rural Wheatland County.
On Sunday, February 12, at approximately 2:15 p.m. Airdrie Rural RCMP received a call from Calgary Police Service to assist in locating a vehicle which had been driving erratically.
An RCMP officer located the vehicle and attempted a traffic stop, but the vehicle fled and the pursuit was terminated. A Calgary Police Service helicopter maintained visual contact with the suspect vehicle and advised that it was travelling at high speed, sometimes in the oncoming lanes.
An RCMP officer successfully deployed a tire deflation device, stopping the suspect vehicle near the intersection of Highway 564 and Range Road 245, near the hamlet of Nightingale, in Wheatland County.
The officer attempted to arrest the driver, who was the lone occupant.
An altercation occurred which resulted in the officer discharging their firearm. The driver, a 37-year-old female resident of Calgary, has been transported via STARS to a Calgary hospital with gunshot injuries. No officers were physically injured during this incident.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) has taken over carriage of the investigation into the circumstances of the officer involved shooting.
Alberta RCMP believes in processes that seek the facts and it’s important that processes taken to assess the actions of all those involved, including the police, are fair, transparent, and defendable. This is why, as soon as we became aware of this incident, we immediately notified the Director of Law Enforcement and initiated our internal review process.
Independent of ASIRT’s investigation, the Alberta RCMP’s internal review process has been implemented to gather a full account of what took place during this incident. RCMP training, policy, police response, and the duty status of the members involved will be subject to review.

Update as of February 24, 2023:

As a result of an investigation by Southern Alberta District General Investigation Section into the incidents leading up to the officer involved shooting, charges have been pursued.

Kerry Jolene Funk, 37, a resident of Calgary, has been charged with the following offences: assault peace officer with a weapon; flight from peace officer; dangerous operation of a motor vehicle; possess a weapon for dangerous purpose; utter threats.

Funk has been released on conditions and will be appearing in provincial court in Airdrie on April 20, 2023.

As this matter is before the courts, no further information will be provided.

Town of Drumheller will move forward with expropriation of a small portion of two parcels of land in the Newcastle area after accepting the Certificate of Approval and Resolutions presented at the regular Monday, February 6 council meeting.
Drumheller Resiliency and Flood Mitigation Office (DRFMO) project manager Deighen Blakely presented the request and noted these pieces of land along Riverside Avenue West are required by the DRFMO in order to proceed with construction of the Newcastle berm.
“Ideally we are able to come to agreement with landowners outside of the expropriation process,” Ms. Blakely tells the Mail, “but this is a tool that we will be using, in this case, in the Newcastle berm area.”
DRFMO made attempts to negotiate with the landowners to purchase the two portions of land, but all offers were rejected.
Drumheller council approved a notice of intent to expropriate in September 2022 which began the expropriation process for the two partial parcels. One partial parcel acquisition is for a total of approximately 19 square metres, or roughly 205 square feet, while the other partial acquisition is for an approximate 39 square metres, or 420 square feet.
Ms. Blakely explains, once the notice of intent was approved, it then had to go to the land titles office for registration where there was a delay of a couple months before notice of registration was received in December. With council approving the Certificate of Approval and Resolution, expropriation will now move forward to the next step and will once again need to be registered with land titles. However, there are still several steps before the expropriation process is complete and the land is acquired or the landowners receive payment.
All costs associated with land acquisitions, including legal fees, are eligible for funding through the provincial portion of the flood mitigation funding, totalling some $20 million.
As of September 2022, a total of $4.5 million had been spent to purchase 16 of the 27 properties identified for acquisition by DRFMO.