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Austin Bombing Suspect Killed Himself in Explosion as SWAT Approached

posted by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:55AM   
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

• Re:Private Military Loosens Hiring Standards Re:Private Military Loosens Hiring Standards (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:50PM (4 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:50PM (#656096)

  Hmm… the problem with Arik Mono is that ellipses don't look very good. See that one I just used? It's all scrunched up and compressed since 1en = 1em—even em dashes get scrunched up! Look at that one! You can't tell whether it's an em dash or an en dash or a hyphen or a negative!

  Can we stop the violence against decent, hardworking variable width serif and sans-serif typefaces? Think of the kerning! Think of the children!

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• Re:Private Military Loosens Hiring Standards Re:Private Military Loosens Hiring Standards (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:13PM (2 children)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:13PM (#656104) Journal

  I shot the serif, but I did not shoot the monospace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLUNu9zOLfM [youtube.com]

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  • Re:Private Military Loosens Hiring Standards Re:Private Military Loosens Hiring Standards (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:35PM (#656109)

    and you are now so Comic Sans. literally.

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    • Re:Private Military Loosens Hiring Standards (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:41PM (#656134)

      Don't worry I got a small chuckle from the Marley reference. It was a better joke than yours, though comic sans was decent. If you delivered it with a better attitude it would have worked better.

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• Re:Private Military Loosens Hiring Standards (Score: 0, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:05PM

  by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:05PM (#656123) Homepage Journal

  I don't answer to god. If there was inline CSS available, I'd be doing
  
  @font-face {
       font-family: "Linotype Abstract";
       src: url("css/fonts/LinotypeOL.wav");
  }
  
  on every single post and VariusTM Ornaments for every reply. My favourite color is CIE(0.363661,0.182901,154493.4785) and all of my grids are replaced with lists.

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