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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) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:07PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:07PM (#656202)

    Terrorism is a rich man's game. See Bin Laden or these white guys. Drive by shootings and other types of murder are a poor man's game.

    As the affluenza of other racial groups increases, they will join in the fun and existential dread.

  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:52PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:52PM (#656334)

    Actually, it's mostly a middle-class man's game. The really rich people rarely have any motivation to commit acts of terrorism (they already have whatever it is that they want), and the poor folks as you mention don't usually have the means.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:17PM (#656362)

      Middle class American = rich to most of the world