Thursday, October 1, 2026
Authorities arrested a man early Thursday, June 4, after he allegedly broke several windows of the Washington state Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to break in.
Using rocks and his fists, the man, described as heavily intoxicated, attempted to knock out windows on the first floor of the west side of the Legislative Building. But none of them broke as security film applied on the windows following a vandalism incident last fall held broken pieces together as intended.
“It worked. The good news is he did not get in,” said Washington State Patrol spokesman Chris Loftis on Thursday morning.
The first call came in at 1:19 a.m.
When a state trooper contacted the man outside the building, the person got into a car and sped off. He drove down a utility road to reach Capitol Lake, then across a pedestrian bridge before he was apprehended by state troopers and Olympia Police Department officers, Loftis said.
No officers were injured, he said.
This is the second vandalism incident in recent months on the same side of the Capitol building.
In October 2025, a hammer-wielding man broke in through a window. Once inside, he set fires and toppled two iconic busts.
Gunnar McLean Schubert, 29, faces charges of second-degree burglary, a felony, and third-degree malicious mischief, a gross misdemeanor, for the alleged crime.
He’s out of custody and is yet to be arraigned as he awaits a court-ordered mental health evaluation to determine if he is mentally capable of proceeding with his case. If he is found incompetent, he will be admitted to an involuntary treatment facility.
Schubert’s next court appearance is Aug. 31.
Courtesy of Washington State Standard
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chrispc2u
By all means possible, let’s make sure we set this fine young man up with a tiny home in downtown Olympia so we can continue to demonstrate how well we enable and support the homeless (professional bums).
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wellnow77
Homeless people are professional bums - that statement is ridiculous.
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CobraCommander
Commenters are so quick to blame the unhoused, but you can just look him up: He's a minor league baseball player formerly at Gonzaga.
Likely, he's an angry, violent conservative hell-bent on another January 6th-style insurrection.
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