DENVER (Reuters) - A man riding an armor-plated bulldozer went on a rampage in a Colorado mountain town and smashed into city hall, a bank and other buildings before being found dead early on Saturday morning, police said.Authorities in Granby, a community of 1,500 people 60 miles northwest of Denver, identified the dead man as Marvin Heemeyer, 52, a businessman who held a grudge against town officials after losing a recent zoning dispute.
Heemeyer drove the bulldozer, which was fortified with steel and concrete, through Granby's main street on Friday afternoon, plowing into buildings and causing severe damage to the town's city hall, bank, newspaper and other businesses.
"It looked as if a tornado touched down and hopscotched across the town of Granby," said Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, who surveyed the scene Friday night.
There were no reports of injuries.
A Denver television station showed the makeshift tank cutting a swath of destruction through the town, knocking over light poles, trees and smashing into several buildings.
After 90 minutes, the bulldozer became wedged in a hardware store that Heemeyer had crashed through. Several hours later, police entered the bulldozer at about 2 a.m. Saturday and found Heemeyer dead, according to a statement from Grand County Undersheriff Glen Trainor.
