A Boulder man was arrested after SWAT officers knocked down his door Monday night following a still-unexplained series of events that left his stepfather dead, shotgun blasts through his former wife’s door and his daughter’s roommate beaten with a bottle.
SWAT officers arrested Thomas Ansley Holloway, 53, at his ninth-floor apartment at Horizons West on Folsom Street in Boulder.
The chain of events began about 8 a.m., when residents heard gunfire at the Summit at Flatirons apartments in Broomfield.
Holloway allegedly fired two blasts through the apartment door where his ex-wife lives. When police learned his stepfather lived in the same complex, they went to his home and found an elderly man shot to death.
Police have not named the estranged wife or stepfather.
Holloway is accused of then breaking into his adult daughter’s home on 14th Street in Boulder, where he smashed a bottle on her roommate’s head.
Police told the Boulder Daily Camera his daughter arrived as her father was fleeing.
The roommate, whose name and gender were not released, needed medical attention for cuts inflicted by the broken bottle.
Holloway faces first-degree murder charges in Broomfield, as well as first-degree burglary and second-degree assault charges in Boulder.
He is being held on $750,000 bond in the Boulder County Jail. Bond has not been set in the Broomfield case.
Public records show he was president of Holloway Medical Sales Inc. in Boulder until the company was dissolved in 2002. He was divorced last year.
He lives in the apartment he acquired from the estate of his mother, who died in October. He formerly lived in Louisville, records indicate.
Holloway has been arrested a number of times in Boulder County since the 1980s, including charges of harassment, menacing, trespassing and criminal mischief.
