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MAN WHO BULLDOZED THROUGH COLO. TOWN IS DEAD

A Colorado muffler shop owner who plowed his makeshift armored bulldozer into
several buildings over a dispute with city officials was found dead in the
machine, authorities said.

A man later identified as Marvin Heemeyer drives his fortified bulldozer down
Jasper Street in Granby, Colo., on Friday. Heemeyer was later found dead.Cathy
Harms / AP
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June 4, 2004, 3:52 PM PDT / Source: The Associated Press


A muffler shop owner who plowed a makeshift armored bulldozer into several
buildings after a dispute with city officials was found dead of an apparent
self-inflicted gunshot wound after a SWAT team cut their way into the machine
early Saturday, authorities said.

The driver, identified by the town manager as Marvin Heemeyer, appeared to have
shot himself, said Grand County Sheriff Rod Johnson.




Officers looking through the square-foot hole cut into the metal casing could
see Heemeyer’s body with a gun lying nearby, Johnson said. Authorities planned
to use a crane to lift the armor shell off the bulldozer, the sheriff said.

Heemeyer plowed the armor-plated bulldozer into the town hall, a former mayor’s
home and at least five other buildings Friday before the machine ground to a
halt in the wreckage of a warehouse.

Angry over a zoning dispute
City officials said he was angry over a zoning dispute and fines for city code
violations at his business in the town about 50 miles west of Denver.

Authorities detonated three explosions and fired at least 200 rounds against the
heavy steel plates welded to the bulldozer, which looked like an upside down
Dumpster. After the third explosion failed, officials used a cutting torch to
open the square-foot hole early Saturday, county Emergency Management Director
Jim Holahan said.



Holahan said Heemeyer was armed with a .50-caliber weapon but appeared to have
deliberately avoided injuring anyone during the rampage, which began about 3
p.m. Friday. No other injuries were reported.


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Undersheriff Glen Trainor said the dozer’s armor plates consisted of two sheets
of half-inch steel with a layer of concrete between them.

Grand County Commissioner Duane Dailey said Heemeyer apparently used a video
camera and two monitors found inside to guide the dozer. Two guns were mounted
in front and aimed through portals. Other portals were cut in the back. It was
unclear how many guns Heemeyer had in the dozer.

‘It looked like a futuristic tank’
Authorities speculated Heemeyer may have used a homemade crane found in his
garage to lower the armor hull over the dozer and himself.

“Once he tipped that lid shut, he knew he wasn’t getting out,” Dailey said.

Investigators searched the garage where they believe Heemeyer built the vehicle
and found cement, armor and steel.



Residents of this mountain tourist town of 2,200 described a bizarre scene as
the bulldozer slowly crashed through buildings, trees and lampposts, with dozens
of officers walking ahead or behind it, firing into the machine and shouting at
townspeople to flee.

“It looked like a futuristic tank,” said Rod Moore, who watched the dozer rumble
past within 15 feet of his auto garage and towing company.

One officer, later identified as Trainor, was perched on top, firing shot after
shot into the top and once dropping an explosive down the exhaust pipe.

“He just kept shooting,” Moore said. “The dozer was still going. He threw what
looked like a flash-bang down the exhaust. It didn’t do a thing.”

A flash-bang produces a blinding flash and earsplitting boom designed to stun a
suspect.

“Gunfire was just ringing out everywhere,” said Sandra Tucker, who saw the
bulldozer begin the rampage from her office on Main Street. “It sounded to me
like an automatic rifle, firing about every second.”



Town manager Tom Hale said Heemeyer was angry after losing a zoning dispute that
allowed a cement plant to be built near his muffler shop. Heemeyer also was
fined $2,500 in a separate case for not having a septic tank and for other city
code violations at his business, Hale said.

When he paid the fine, he enclosed a note with his check saying “Cowards,” Hale
said.

“We felt he was venting his frustration that he didn’t get his way,” Hale said
of the note. “We didn’t think he was going to do something like this.”

Trainor said he believes Heemeyer spent months armoring the bulldozer, and
investigators were looking into whether he had help.

Damaged buildings linked to disputes
Hale said owners of all the buildings that were damaged had some connection to
Heemeyer’s disputes.

The buildings included the cement plant, a utility company, a bank, a newspaper
office, a hardware store and warehouse, the home of former Mayor L.R. “Dick”
Thompson and the municipal building, which also housed a library.



Crumpled patrol cars and service trucks lay in the dozer’s path. A pickup was
folded nearly in half and had been rammed through the wall of a building.

State aid will be available to help rebuild local government buildings, and
state officials will help businesses seek federal help, said Mike Beasley,
director of the state Department of Local Affairs.

The scene was reminiscent of a 1998 rampage in Alma, another town in the
Colorado Rockies. Authorities said Tom Leask shot a man to death, then used a
town-owned front-end loader to heavily damage the town’s post office, fire
department, water department and town hall.




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