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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: 0, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:42PM (10 children)

    by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:42PM (#656181) Homepage Journal

    I'll let you in on a secret: I don't use a single tty for my daily needs. I spawn and kill hundreds of xterms every day. None live long enough to get any sort of cancer that would affect me.

    And for calling me a useless rag, all I have for you is that: you're rude. Cloth has many uses, even if those as lowly as wiping the wet feces off of an obesely bed-ridden Soyim's bottom.

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by darkfeline on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:34AM (9 children)

    by darkfeline (1030) on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:34AM (#656468) Homepage

    > I don't use a single tty for my daily needs. I spawn and kill hundreds of xterms every day.

    Well, I can't say I am surprised to find out how ignorant this new persona is. Each xterm instance holds a tty.

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    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:47AM (8 children)

      by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:47AM (#656472) Homepage Journal
      Each xterm process holds a tty the same way Big is Beautiful(TM), only in marketing jargon. Xterm and like allocate ptys while keyboard events talk to the tty sockets, which xterm listens to. TTYs are allocated by the kernel, not Xterm.

      You inglorious moran.

      • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday March 22 2018, @06:07PM (7 children)

        by darkfeline (1030) on Thursday March 22 2018, @06:07PM (#656748) Homepage

        That's an awfully convenient justification for "I don't use ttys". You should try being a politician, just make sure to hide the cocaine (or maybe tell the courts that cocaine is processed by the molecules in your body and not by you).

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