A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an apparent plan to shoot up a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, authorities said Monday.
The man was found dead in a women's bathroom inside the park by maintenance crews before it opened on Monday
He apparently entered the park while it was closed, armed with an AR-style rifle, a semi-automatic handgun and explosives and was wearing body armor and tactical clothing, similar to what a police SWAT team member might wear, authorities said.A message saying, “I am not a killer, I just want to get into the caves,” was written on a wall of the bathroom where the man was found lying on the floor, Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario said.
Multiple improvised explosive devices were found in the man’s vehicle, police had said. Authorities searched the rest of the park for other explosives but suggested no others were found. The man, whose name has not been released, was from the nearby town of Carbondale, where he lived with his mother and brother, Vallario said. A search of his room by law enforcement found nothing to indicate explosives and he had no known criminal history or prior encounters with police, the sheriff said.
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