An 84-year-old Broomfield man who was fatally shot, allegedly by his stepson, has been identified.
John Richard Schueller died of “blunt force injuries as a result of a gunshot to the body,” according to the Adams County Coroner’s Office.
His death is being investigated as a homicide.
A Boulder man, Thomas Ansley Holloway, 53, was arrested Monday night after SWAT officers knocked down his door following a series of events that left his stepfather, Schueller, dead, shotgun blasts through his former wife’s door and his daughter’s roommate beaten with a bottle.
Holloway was taken into custody 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 Schueller’s body.
Police have not named the estranged wife.
Holloway is also accused of breaking into his adult daughter’s home on 14th Street in Boulder, where he smashed a bottle on her roommate’s head.
Police said 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.
