One of 2 men on trial after being shot by Olympia police arrested again

One of two men on trial after being shot by an Olympia police officer in 2015 has been arrested again, this time for allegedly assaulting his co-defendant brother during a fight over hot wings.

It was just after 10:30 Monday night when Olympia police were called to a downtown apartment complex by a woman claiming she had also been assaulted by the mother of Andre Thompson and Bryson Chaplin.

The two step brothers were shot by Olympia police officer Ryan Donald two years ago as he was investigating an assault and theft report.

Both are now awaiting a verdict after their trial on charges of assault from the May 2015 incident.  Donald said they attacked him with a skateboard forcing him to shoot and wound the two in self-defense.

A woman calling for help during the Monday incident even told the 911 operator that Donald should not be sent to the call.

“I’m not sure if Ryan Donald is working, but he’s not allowed to, um, he’s not allowed to be here,” she said to the dispatcher.

According to an Olympia police report from Monday, the 24-year-old woman claimed Thompson and Chaplin got into a fight over some hot wings and a cell phone. She told police Thompson and another man attacked the wheelchair bound Chaplin, who lost the use of his legs as a result of the shooting by officer Donald.

“The two brothers held my fiancé down while they beat him and the mom attacked me,” she explained.

The woman told dispatchers as the two men were fighting their mother, Crystal Chaplin, came after her, hitting her and a threatening her.

“She told me if I didn’t leave she would kill me,” she told the 911 operator. “Does she have any weapons?” the operator asked. “Yes, a knife,” the woman responded.

Thompson and his mother were booked on domestic violence assault by Olympia police. Both were released after appearing in municipal court Tuesday morning.

A jury deliberating the case against Thompson and his brother Bryson Chaplin told a judge they were deadlocked Tuesday afternoon after three days.  Judge Erik Price told the jurors to keep trying and dismissed them later in the day with no verdict being reached yet.

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