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: 2) by tonyPick on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:54PM (2 children)
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
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday March 24 2018, @12:34AM
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.