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The suspect in a spate of bombings that terrorized residents of Austin, Texas, died after detonating an explosive inside his vehicle as a SWAT team approached to apprehend him on the side of a highway, officials said.
Early Wednesday, authorities tracked the suspect — a 24-year-old white man — to a hotel in Round Rock, a city in the Austin metropolitan area, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told a news conference early Wednesday.
They tracked his vehicle until it pulled over on Interstate 35 and the suspect "detonated a bomb inside the vehicle, knocking one of our SWAT officers back and one of our officers fired on the vehicle as well," Manley said.
Also at CNN, BBC, and Bloomberg.
Previously: Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:27AM (5 children)
Isn't it telling how different the reaction is between all these now commonplace incidents, and the far rarer instances of terrorist attacks? It seems like every other week there's another mass killing, and everyone seems to take it in stride. But if you attach "terrah!" to such an event then everyone runs around like their hair's on fire.
When 9/11 hit and Darth Cheney began to take the country down the path of evil in response, I predicted he was by far the greater threat to our liberty than any terrorist could ever be, and I think all this now rather proves that out. That is, we're perfectly able to weather these kinds of attacks as long as we keep calm and carry on, but if we surrender our liberty to government opportunists out of panic, then we are lost; We do the terrorists' work for them.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by Nuke on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:39AM
No they don't, except the NRA perhaps.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:52PM (1 child)
There aren't, and the rate has been dropping over time. "Take your gun to school day" is more of a 00s or 90s thing.
You also end up with small number distortions. Put a third of a billion people in a propaganda block, and you're going to get lots of really weird onesie twosie things that don't really mean anything on a larger scale. There's about as many cannibalism deaths as school shooter deaths and they pale in comparison to the number of tripped fell and died in the bathtub deaths or lightning strikes.
(Score: 2, Touché) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @07:15PM
Lightning killed him in the bathtub with a gun... then ate him.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:28PM (1 child)
So much this. Whenever I see the reaction to any type of attack, terrorist, school shooting, or other, I always think back to 9/11. I remember at the end of one of the extremely long broadcasts when this particular network was finally signing off of coverage the main news anchor gave some commentary on how we should react to terrorist attacks. He gave a very wise speech about how we should not change our lives and society as a result of the attacks, because that's exactly the goal of the terrorist, to attack our freedoms by making us remove that freedom ourselves due to living in fear. I wish I could remember the anchor's name or find a clip of the speech online, but so far have been unsuccessful.
What have we done since 9/11? Exactly the opposite of his advice. Knee-jerk reactions, security theater, over protection, oppressive law enforcement, freedom-abolishing laws, mass surveillance, etc etc etc. It makes me sick. The terrorist have won alright. I do not fear terrorist or mass shootings, but rather society's reaction to them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @10:08AM
You won't find his name. He is an unperson. He has never existed.
If you do find any record it is false and should be reported to minitru for correction.