No one was hurt in the explosion because the building was closed and empty, police said.
A year before the shooting and explosion, a representative from Apodaca’s former job at Sturgeon Electric Company said Apodaca threatened to a union rep that he would shoot his wife and the union rep, and then said he “will come after the people responsible” after he and his wife lost their jobs.
Apodaca, 46, and his wife, Melissa Martinez, 44, then reached the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Thornton around 9 a.m. Sunday where Apodaca instructed his wife to back a truck up to a window before he shattered the glass with a hammer, police said. A member of the Adams County Sheriff’s office works near the scene at a Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Thornton, Colo., on Dec. 25, 2022.Only two congregants were inside when the explosive devices were placed there, police said. One of the devices appeared to start a fire, but was quickly put out with an extinguisher, Thornton police said.
The probe also indicated that both Apodaca and Martinez were former members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation, and the night before the shooting, Apodaca expressed interest in returning, police said.
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