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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.
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Previously: Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:10PM (6 children)
Not a single post in this thread shows much, if any, empathy. Mostly, it is various media discources and predictable shitposting trying to hit emotional buttons.
A human being died, by his own hand. What horrible thing did other people do to him, to make him react outward with such hatred of others?
"Nutters gonna nut", eh? So the society, the state apparat and social security net (oh wait, it's USA) are blameless here? How lucky for them.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:49PM
Americans do that, you know. Or they laugh at you for not having had a chunk of your penis cut off.
It's a weird place, where everyone has to pretend to be free even though they know they ain't; that can take a toll on a man's mind.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:23PM
If you try to understand a problem, you may think you're at fault when it keeps happening despite you figuring out its roots.
Ignorance is the ticket to the peaceful state of being innocently blindsided by terrible events.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:39PM (1 child)
World Socialist Web Site has some interesting things to say: The social and political roots of mass shootings in America [wsws.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:49PM
It's just the structuralist Marxist perspective, as expected.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:27PM
Just the other day I saw a highly rated comment going on about the tragic and unfortunate, unjust and stupid behavior of software-fixing decisions by upper management, "Just patch over it so that it works for now" or something to that extent.
Yet when it comes to violence, we are far less concerned, apparently.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:05PM
Yes, we should try to understand this guy so we don't have more like him.
But I'm not going to have a lot of sympathy for a guy who decided that he wanted to kill people he'd never met and likely had done absolutely nothing to him. Blowing himself up probably was the least harmful thing he could do at that point.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.