A custom woodworker was identified Tuesday as the person shot to death at a Fort Collins storage complex by a man who later hanged himself.
Matthew Gulakowski, 35, had an ongoing dispute with 45-year-old Barry Jay Shebs, the man who shot him, said Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden. He said Shebs was bothered by fumes he claimed were emanating from Gulakowski’s adjacent storage unit in the 2600 block of Mulberry Street.
Shebs pointed a .357-caliber Ruger revolver through a 4-by-4-inch hole in the wall between the units Monday and shot Gulakowski six times, Alderden said.
Shebs appeared to be living in a camper in his storage unit. The camper was wired with a pinhole camera trained on the outside of both units.
Gulakowski also had a camera trained on the outside of his door because he often worked with a saw inside the unit and could not hear customers above the noise.
After the late-afternoon shooting, deputies searched for the shooter through the evening Monday. They eventually found Shebs behind a barricaded door, hanging from the rafters of his storage unit.
Shebs left an 18-page, rambling note that referenced the dispute with Gulakowski and said in part, “I need to end this now,” Alderden said.
