Police release surveillance video taken before Olympia police shooting
May 22, 2015, 12:52 PM | Updated: 1:08 pm
Police have released surveillance video taken inside an Olympia grocery store early Thursday morning where two men allegedly tried to shoplift beer before assaulting an employee.
The two men in the video are believed to be the step-brothers shot during a confrontation shortly after a Safeway worker called 911.
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The pair are spotted walking in the store with skateboards and then attempting to walk out with a case of beer. A store employee tries to intercept, but one of the men throws the box her way. She tries to deflect it as the men take off.
About 20 minutes later, it’s believed the two men, who police have identified as Andre Thompson, 23, and Bryson Chaplin, 21, were shot during a confrontation with officer Ryan Donald.
Donald found the two suspects matching the description nearby on Cooper Point Road at 1:14 a.m. By 1:16 a.m. he notified dispatch that he was assaulted by a suspect with a skateboard, and that there was a shooting. The officer shot both suspects in the chest.
“What I know is that there was a confrontation with the officer at the rear of the car and then another one across the street,” Roberts said Thursday morning.
“What we do know is that the officer, over the air, reported being assaulted by a subject with a skateboard,” he said.
Two skateboards were later collected as evidence.
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