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Firefighters work to clean up the scene of a structure fire caused by a truck that crashed into the house on May 26, 2019, in Lafayette. (Jeremy Papasso/Staff photographer)
Boulder County Sheriff's Office
Mark Campbell

The man who reportedly crashed his fiery truck into a Lafayette house on Sunday in an effort to kill both himself and his ex-girlfriend was charged Thursday with 11 felonies, including attempted murder.

Mark Austin Campbell, 28, of Brighton,was charged Thursday with two counts of attempted first-degree murder after deliberation, three counts of attempted first-degree murder with extreme indifference, three counts of attempted first-degree assault with extreme indifference, one count of attempted first-degree assault with a deadly weapon, first-degree arson, criminal mischief in the amount of $100,000 to $1 million and second-degree burglary.

Campbell also was charged with one crime of violence sentence enhancer.

Campbell, who is in custody at the Boulder County Jail on $250,000 bond, is set for a preliminary hearing on June 20.

According to an arrest affidavit, police and firefighters on May 26 were called to the 300 block of Simpson Street for a structure fire. Firefighters found the front of the house on fire and a truck with its bed inside the home.

While firefighters tried to put out the blaze, police were talking to Campbell, who was inside the truck and refusing to come out. Police said Campbell appeared to be trying to goad the officers into shooting him and pulled a knife that he used to try and cut himself.

An officer with a non-lethal pepper bag shotgun broke the window of the truck and began firing at Campbell, who then dropped the knife and exited the truck.

Firefighters were able to put out the fire before it spread from the home, and the three people inside were able to safely evacuate through a back door.

A woman who lived inside the home said Campbell was her ex-boyfriend, and said he had recently been trying to contact her. She said he sent a note the day of the crash saying “it was not her fault” and indicating he was going to do something.

Witnesses said Campbell showed up at the house and knocked on the door to try and get his ex-girlfriend to answer. When she did not, witnesses said Campbell poured gasoline on himself and on firewood in the bed of his truck and lit it on fire before ramming the truck into the home, according to the affidavit.

The ex-girlfriend said Campbell kept pulling the truck forward and reversing it back into the home to try and drive it deeper into the building, and shouted “That (expletive) is going down with me, we’re going down together.”

Campbell told police he had only been trying to contact his ex because she owed him money and did admit to lighting his truck on fire, but said backing into the house was an accident and that he never intended to hurt anybody but himself.

Police found a lighter and a burnt gas canister and firewood near the burnt truck, according to the affidavit.