One reporter, Cece Krewson, said he nearly came to blows with Heemeyer over the matter when discussing it. In 1994, a measure was proposed that would have legalized gambling in Grand Lake and Heemeyer was an avid campaigner for it. At one point, he began disseminating a newspaper of his own on the issue, as he believed the local newspapers biased against this cause. Heemeyer was strongly in favor of gambling legalization and campaigned for the cause on several occasions. During one trip, a minor avalanche trapped several other sledders, with Heemeyer leading a rescue effort. Heemeyer enjoyed snowmobilling regularly, doing so with a group of friends. Baker said her husband later paid Heemeyer $124. However, while many people described Heemeyer as an affable person, local resident Christie Baker claimed that her husband was threatened by Heemeyer after refusing to pay for a disputed muffler repair. Heemeyer's brother Ken stated that he "would bend over backwards for anyone". John Bauldree, a friend of Heemeyer's, said that he was a likable person. His friends stated that he had no relatives in the Granby–Grand Lake area. In 1989, he moved to Grand Lake, Colorado, about 16 miles (26 km) away from Granby. In 1974, he moved to Colorado because he was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base. Marvin Heemeyer was born on October 28, 1951, on a dairy farm in South Dakota. No one else was injured or killed, in part due to timely evacuation orders. He killed himself after the bulldozer got stuck in a hardware store he was destroying. On Friday, June 4, 2004, Heemeyer used the bulldozer to demolish the Granby town hall, the house of a former mayor, and several other buildings. Over about eighteen months, Heemeyer had secretly armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete. Heemeyer had various grudges against Granby town officials, neighbors of his muffler shop, the local press and various other citizens of Granby. Marvin John Heemeyer (Octo– June 4, 2004) was an American automobile muffler repair shop owner who demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado in 2004.
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