The town planning commission also suggested that the Docheff family ask if they could purchase Heemeyer's plot to keep the plant away from the hotels and businesses on route 40. When bringing these plans to the town planning commission, they informed them they needed a "Planned Development Overlay District" permit to construct the plant. The Docheff family wanted to expand their concrete business by constructing an in-door concrete batch plant and were buying up the land around their current lot, hoping to lease the remaining 23 parcels to small manufacturers, creating a small commercial-light industrial park. The land used to be a concrete plant and was desired by the Docheff family, who Heemeyer outbid at the auction. In 1992, Heemeyer purchased 2 acres (0.8 ha) of land from the Resolution Trust Corporation, the federal agency organized to handle the assets of failed savings and loan associations, for $42,000 to build a muffler shop.
The local press ran stories that disagreed with Heemeyer's view on gambling legalization, stories that promoted the concrete batch plant after it had taken the additional steps to reduce noise and dust pollution, and stories that covered Heemeyer's other conflicts and failures. Heemeyer had several disagreements of opinion with the local press, which may have led to his targeting of the Sky-Hi News building in Granby. A reporter 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. Heemeyer was strongly in favor of gambling legalization and campaigned for the cause on several occasions, disseminating at least two issues of a newspaper on the issue. 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, before killing himself during the attack after being confronted by law enforcement.
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