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Austin Bombing Suspect Killed Himself in Explosion as SWAT Approached

posted by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the went-out dept.
Austin bomb suspect blows self up as SWAT team approached

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.

Austin serial bombings.

Also at CNN, BBC, and Bloomberg.

Previously: Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas

 
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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:34AM (7 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:34AM (#656050) Journal
    Well, could still be a white Syrian. Not looking good for the team though. I think this one isn't going to have a lot of pro-Muslim screeds on his Facebook page.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:06PM (3 children)

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:06PM (#656076)

    Or Hispanic. Remember George Zimmerman the afro-peruvian dude who self-identified as Hispanic on all his legal paperwork, but as soon as he shot a black kid who was beating him to death, he magically got white-washed into being an evil white male.

    I'm sure there's people out there right now claiming Duterte of the Philippines is a white dude merely because they don't like him and he's slightly paler than MLK jr was.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:51PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:51PM (#656098)

      Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity, not a race.
      Peruvian is a nationality.

      You are right that people were pretending that he fit the same definition of "white" (Caucasian, WASP, etc.) that is commonly used. While he was technically "white", he wasn't white enough for some people.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:50PM (#656148)

      God you're both fucktards that can't admit being 100% wrong. Grow up.

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday March 24 2018, @12:30AM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday March 24 2018, @12:30AM (#657329)

      Zimmerman is both white and hispanic. As the other guy said, hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. You could tell he's hispanic just by looking at him.

      As for the black kid beating him to death, I don't think that was ever proven. Zimmerman had a bunch of run-ins with the cops after that incident, involving domestic violence, so I'm not at all inclined to believe his story; the evidence points to him instigating the whole thing. George has proven that he really *is* an evil white male.

  • (Score: 2) by tonyPick on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:54PM (2 children)

    by tonyPick (1237) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:54PM (#656100) Homepage Journal

    Doesn't look it...

    http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/21/austin-bomber-named-mark-anthony-conditt-24-7404046/ [metro.co.uk]
    http://uk.businessinsider.com/everything-we-know-about-texas-bombing-suspect-2018-3 [businessinsider.com]

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:12PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:12PM (#656346) Journal
      Indeed. I guess there's not only one source of violence in the world.

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday March 24 2018, @12:34AM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday March 24 2018, @12:34AM (#657332)

      Well, I see two big red flags here in the first article about the bomber:

      1) He was homeschooled, and 2) they said something about a "mission trip" (typical for LDS followers).

      Obviously, we can conclude that being raised by religious nuts and being homeschooled (these typically go together) makes someone more likely to become a serial killer.

      Seriously, kids who are homeschooled are almost always screwed up. Only being socialized within a little cult is not healthy.