Crews worked for hours overnight on the premise that a body in a remote area in Gilpin County might contain a bomb.
“We treated it that way,” said Gilpin County Coroner Zane Laubhan, who was at the scene until 4:30 a.m. Thursday after the Chevrolet Blazer and body of Brian Frye was found near Central City by his friends, apparently dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Friends knew he had an affinity for the area where he was found, Laubhan said.
Westminster police had been looking for the 30-year-old since Tuesday. Authorities had gone to his apartment in the 9000 block of Vance Street in Westminster after reports that he was threatening suicide.
Frye was gone, but he had left behind items used for making a bomb with a note saying he planned to kill himself.
Authorities found no bomb in his SUV, however.
His apartment building was evacuated Tuesday as the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department Bomb Squad to remove the explosives from the apartment, allowing residents to go back to their apartments afterward.
