A Flathead County Sheriff’s Office internal shooting review board has found no violation of policy in the Oct. 10 shooting of a Columbia Falls woman by a SWAT team member.

Sheriff’s Deputy Caleb Pleasants fired at 54-year-old Michelle Gentry several times, striking her twice, when she approached the SWAT team with a gun in her hand. The SWAT team had been called in when negotiators were unable to get Gentry, who reportedly was suicidal, to exit her Eastland Crossroad home.

The wounded Gentry was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center in critical condition, but recovered.

“After careful review of the information made available to us, we find no deviation from or failure to comply with the policies and procedures of the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office,” a statement from the review board reads. “It is further our recommendation that Deputy Caleb Pleasants be returned to full duty at the earliest convenience without restriction or prejudice.”

Sheriff Chuck Curry said that based on that recommendation, he has returned Pleasants, a six-year Sheriff’s Office veteran, to duty. Pleasants had been on paid administrative leave since the incident.

The Kalispell Police Department conducted a full investigation into the shooting and has turned over its findings to the Flathead County Attorney’s Office as well as to board members prior to their ruling.

The report is being kept secret by law enforcement.

Kalispell Police Chief Roger Nasset said his agency will not turn over a copy of that report, saying that is the prerogative of the county attorney’s office, a statement roughly mirrored by Curry’s press release. Curry said Thursday afternoon that he had not yet seen the report.

Flathead County Attorney Ed Corrigan said Gentry is currently in a hospital and that he could not share any further details on her hospitalization due to privacy issues. He said any decision to release the report or whether any charges will be requested will wait until she has been released.

“We intend to [release the report] eventually, but there’s some privacy steps and some procedural steps we have to take before we do so, just privacy concerns that have to be honored on her behalf,” Corrigan said. “Until some of those are resolved, we’re going to move slowly and methodically.”