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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 businessman. >> the motive is becoming clear, heemeyer's been harbored deep-seeded grudges against some p...

>> yet even his close friends had no idea that he was building this implement of destruction or he was planning to use it. >> heemeyer's 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 heemeyer demolishing the town and help still a long way from arriving trainor devi...

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 sheriff's 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 sheriff's office. i actually even requested assistance from the colorado national guard. of course, they're an hour and a half away. >> in t...

Friends in h no idea that he was building this implement of destruction or that he was planning to use it. >> heemeyer's 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 heemeyer demolishing the town and help still a long way from arriving trainor devices a plan to tr...

>> it's 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 that i might be able to actually shoot inside or move to actually gain entry into the tank. >> with th...