Man assaults family at home

A Tumwater man was booked for multiple crimes after allegedly attacking his family, despite existing no-contact orders because he believed them to be “clones from the military.”

The suspect, 40, was arrested on July 14 after a reported violation of a no-contact order at his parents’ home.

The suspect’s father told police that he confronted a man for “messing” with their mailbox. When he realized that the man was his son, he immediately retreated into their home and tried to lock the door, but the suspect still managed to force his way in.

The father got shoved backward from the doorway when the suspect came in. The family dog also ran outside, and when the dad came out to get the dog, the suspect locked him out of the house.

The dad said he ran over to a camper on their property to wake their other son, at which point he heard his wife yelling in the backyard.

The mother told her husband that she awoke to yelling and came out of the bedroom to find the suspect locking the front and back doors. She said she tried to unlock the back door but the suspect shoved her, causing her to fall and sprain her ankle. She was also locked out of the house.

The suspect’s father and brother removed a screen to the living room window to gain access to the house. The father said he reached inside the window to unlock the front door, but the suspect grabbed his hand and shoved it back out, causing abrasions.

The brother managed to enter the house through the window and a fight broke out between him and the suspect. The father managed to get his hand back in through the window to open the front door.

The father and brother shoved the suspect out of the house. During this struggle, the suspect punched, scratched, and bit his brother, according to the police report. Police noted the brother had bleeding and bite marks on his right forearm and left quadriceps.

Police confirmed that two no-contact orders prevented the suspect from being 500 and 1,000 feet from his parents’ residence. The suspect also had a warrant out for “escape community custody for domestic court order violation – assault.”

An officer caught the suspect exiting his parents’ home through the fenced gate on the front yard. He initially ignored the officer’s commands to stop but was eventually handcuffed.

The officer noted that the suspect was “mumbling to himself and staring off in the distance.” The suspect then began yelling in the direction of the house, saying he knew that the occupants of the home were clones of his family from the military.

The suspect also yelled out that he was trying to get the soldiers out of his parents’ house to regain control of the residence. The brother similarly said that the suspect made statements such as the family is not who they say they are.

The suspect was booked into the Thurston County Jail for residential burglary in violation of a no-contact order, fourth-degree assault in violation of a no-contact order, and two counts of fourth-degree assault.