I'm not getting the official narrative from anything I have heard about this story, it just doesn't make sense. It sounds like:

•neighbors hear some kind of shit going down, and call cops.

•cops show up and see broken glass, a dude in his underwear, and old Paul both holding a hammer, with the the younger dude using both his arms to keep Paul from swinging it.

•Cops ask: WTF are you two fools doing? Younger dude answer's: All good bro, we just playing.

•••Then here is the fuzzy part: How/why did the younger dude let go of Paul? When Paul walked up to the cops, who was holding a hammer? Did the younger dude just hold on to the hammer while Paul calmly walked away from him to go talk to the cops? Or, was Paul still holding the hammer while talking to the cops, and then walked back to the younger guy? If Paul was not holding a hammer, then he must have been stupefied drunk if he walked back to the [hammer] armed younger dude- and he was probably doing it in a threatening manner.

Either way, it seems to me that Paul was probably drunk out of his mind, and as a result violent. DePape could have been acting in self defense, both before cops arrived, and after the cops let drunk ass Paul engage DePape for a second time- regardless of who was holding a hammer.

I think this is a case of a severe alcoholic (Paul) going totally out of control, and being a drunken, violent asshole towards his buddy, DePape. They were probably both drunk too. I think that's why this whole story doesn't make much sense: drunken stupidity is irrational.