Heemeyer
Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American USAF veteran, welder and automobile repair shop owner who demolished numerous buildings, in an act of revenge, with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado, in June 2004. Heemeyer's machine was posthumously labeled by some members of the media and later adopted by some of Heemeyer's supporters as the "Killdozer".
For 12 years, Granby town officials, neighbors of his muffler shop, the local press, and other citizens of Granby had been in disputes with Heemeyer in various ways, including over zoning rules which Heemeyer believed impaired his muffler repair shop's business. Starting in 2002, over about eighteen months, Heemeyer channeled his frustration and secretly armored a huge Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete to render it tank-like and referred to it on tapes as "Marv's Komatsu Tank".
On June 4, 2004, Heemeyer acted out his rage and used the bulldozer in a vehicle-ramming attack to demolish the Granby town hall, the house of a former mayor, and several other buildings. He committed suicide after the bulldozer became stuck in the debris of a hardware store he was destroying. No one else was injured or killed.
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