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Because we knew that our armament was very ineffective against it. >> while the residents flee, trainor tries to determine who is unleashing this wave of destruction. >> we were notified that the individual who was driving this bulldozer was most likely marvin heemeyer. >> marvin was a commoner around town. he was well known. people knew him. many people considered him a friend. >> i met marvin heemeyer back in the 1990s. he ran a muffler shop in the town of grandby. and knew him just as a busin...

>> yet even his close friends had no idea that he was building this implement of destruction or he was planning to use it. >> heemeyers careful in his construction. there are no windows leaving little chance for law enforcement to get a shot into the rolling fortress. but heemeyer has to come up with another way to see. >> he placed several cameras at different locations outside of the bulldozer, just pinhole cameras so that he was able to actually drive the thing using a closed-circuit tv video...

Our own. >> the homemade tank is outfitted with high-caliber rifles and is rolling over everything in its path. a few residents grabbed cameras to record the destruction as it happens. >> mad man in grandby. >> the rural sheriffs department is ill-equipped to handle such an attach so trainor calls for backup. >> we needed the notification to ask for a larger tactical team and agencies to respond from the denver metropolitan area. and the jefferson county sheriffs office. i actually even requeste...

Friends in h no idea that he was building this implement of destruction or that he was planning to use it. >> heemeyers careful in his construction. there are no windows leaving little chance for law enforcement to get a shot into the rolling fortress. but heemeyer has to come up with another way to see. >> he placed several cameras at different locations outside of the bulldozer, just pinhole cameras so that he was able to actually drive the thing using a closed-circuit tv video system. >> with...

>> its a risky move and apparently one that heemeyer had planned for. >> mr. heemeyer had taken axle grease and had greased the entire side of the tank. so that, you know, if he tried to get on top, you would just slip off. i was able to stick my fingers in between a couple of pieces of metal that had an exposed space and was able to eventually get on top of the tank. and was very surprised to find that there was absolutely no hatch visible into the top of the tank. i began looking for areas tha...

Got hurt. because we knew that our armament was very ineffective against it. >> while the residents flee, trainor tries to determine who is unleashing this wave of destruction. >> we were notified that the individual who was driving this bulldozer was most likely marvin heemeyer. >> marvin was a commoner around town. he was well known. people knew him. many people considered him a friend. >> i met marvin heemeyer back in the 1990s. he ran a muffler shop in the town of grandby. and knew him just ...

Hatch visible into the top of the tank. i began looking for areas that i might be able to actually shoot inside or move to actually gain entry into the tank. >> with the bulldozer about to ram into another building, undersheriff trainor is out of time and ammo. hes forced to abort the plan. the destruction continues. but then a lucky break. >> he started overheating and became stuck on a -- the foundation of this building. the tracks werent on dirt and one through an open crawl space of the base...

Denver metropolitan area. and the jefferson county sheriffs office. i actually even requested assistance from the colorado national guard. of course, theyre an hour and a half away. >> in the meantime, the four to five bulldozer is destroying the town. and theres nothing the sheriffs department can do to stop it. >> hear shots fired. >> our primary purpose at that point was to try and just evacuate the town so that nobody got hurt. because we knew that our armament was very ineffective against i...

That there was absolutely no hatch visible into the top of the tank. i began looking for areas that i might be able to actually shoot inside or move to actually gain entry into the tank. >> with the bulldozer about to ram into another building, undersheriff trainor is out of time and ammo. hes forced to abort the plan. the destruction continues. but then a lucky break. >> he started overheating and became stuck on a -- the foundation of this building. the tracks werent on dirt and one through an...

Against it. >> while the residents flee, trainor tries to determine who is unleashing this wave of destruction. >> we were notified that the individual who was driving this bulldozer was most likely marvin heemeyer. >> marvin was a commoner around town. he was well known. people knew him. many people considered him a friend. >> i had met marvin heemeyer back in the 1990s. he ran a muffler shop in the town of grandby. and knew him just as a businessman. >> the motive is becoming clear, heemeyers ...