Two people have been killed and four have been injured by explosions caused by package bombs in Austin, TX this month:
In Texas, Another Explosion Injures 2 Men In Austin
Authorities in Austin, Texas, responded to an explosion in the southwest part of the city late Sunday, with the city's emergency medical service tweeting that it caused two serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
The blast comes on the heels of three package-bomb explosions in recent weeks that have killed two people and wounded two more, as well as a bomb threat that canceled a Saturday hip-hop concert at the South by Southwest festival. It is not yet known if Sunday night's explosion is related to any of the prior incidents.
Austin's police chief Brian Manley had made a direct appeal to the bomber(s) just hours earlier.
Related Stories
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: 1) by cocaine overdose on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:00AM (12 children)
>“We want to understand what brought you to this point, and we want to listen to you.”
Damn, Chief Manley. Guy's had four successful a-site rushes, and you're treating him like he's some dumb sob that's taken the pub hostage after his wife left him for the mail man. Anyone who's ever downloaded any "suggestive" PDF dumps in Austin, better get to dbanning their drives.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:47AM (6 children)
Nah, the bomber is probably a gay cowboy LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ activist who went into a queer drama rage over insufficient fudge-packing content at SXSW this year.
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Tuesday March 20 2018, @11:21AM (1 child)
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday March 20 2018, @12:30PM
you mean coppers are investigating all leads
Which is entirely racist, metallurgicaly speaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 20 2018, @01:53PM (3 children)
More likely a progressive who wants to prove how bad things are with Trump in charge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:25PM
I'll point and laugh at you when you're wrong.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:48PM (1 child)
> More likely a progressive who wants to prove how bad things are with Trump in charge.
So, an extremist anti-Trump progressive ... in Texas ?
I know Austin ain't Dallas, but seriously...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:41AM
https://theweek.com/articles/462815/wendy-davis-stunning-filibuster-texas-abortion-bill [theweek.com]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/11/06/wendy-davis-lost-really-badly-heres-how-it-happened/ [washingtonpost.com]
Bitter loser resorts to bombs. Like, THAT has never happened in mankind's history, right?
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Tuesday March 20 2018, @12:56PM (3 children)
You really do sound like you did too much coke.
(Score: 2, Touché) by cocaine overdose on Tuesday March 20 2018, @01:34PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:25PM (1 child)
Bring back ethanol fueled, this new troll account is even more lame somehow.
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:33PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @02:41PM
This 4th bombing (the one with the tripwire) got two white guys (non-fatal, apparently). It was planted in a largely white neighborhood on the other side of town from the others. At this point it looks like he's drawing a circle around the city.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Entropy on Tuesday March 20 2018, @12:17PM (2 children)
Or maybe it's the imported terrorists texas tried to keep out? They act like this in their own country, why wouldn't they in another country that let them in. The reason their country sucks is because their culture allowed it to develop, that isn't going to magically go away.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/16/texas-loses-fight-keep-syrian-refugees-out/ [texastribune.org]
Texas is #2 in the nation for "refugee" resettlement, behind california.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:10PM (1 child)
Do you have any actual evidence that the bomber is Syrian? (I mean, anything other than what passes for thought in your enfeebled imagination.) And who the hell upmodded this drivel as "Informative"? Somebody should step forward and justify that upmod.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:58PM
I have taken note of the "Troll" mod. Look, just because I ask you to justify your bald assertion doesn't make me a "troll". Would you like to provide any evidence of your claim, or may I take my victory lap now?
(Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Tuesday March 20 2018, @01:24PM (1 child)
What they are not saying is that each package was wrapped up like a present and their number one suspect is Jokey Smurf. :P
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:43PM
Out of curiosity, which college did you go to? And is this post related to a comic there in the school paper?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @01:25PM
We need to raise Adam West from the dead. This sounds like a job for the Gray Ghost [wikia.com]!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 20 2018, @01:48PM (3 children)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/03/20/explosion-fedex-facility-texas/440810002/ [usatoday.com]
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/us/austin-explosions/index.html [cnn.com]
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/explosion-rattles-fedex-facility-texas-53868982 [go.com]
Take your pick, or find your own links - I heard this on the radio on the way home a little bit ago. Police think it's linked. Odds are, yes it is. Fedex just doesn't have a lot of explosions in their facilities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @02:09PM (2 children)
Will at least increase the evidence. But the unibomber wasn’t easy to catch.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:06PM (1 child)
I'd be surprised if the bomber(s) got away with as many bombing attempts [wikipedia.org] as Unabomber did, or if the bomber(s) were not located in or near Austin, TX.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:13PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:09PM (2 children)
Maybe this is related to all those stories about Amazon's new headquarters. "Psst, Amazon... heard about your new location selection, Amazon... would be a pity if all shipping deliveries stopped in our town till we get moved up the list..."
Or Brick -n- Mortar decide to fight back against Amazon.
I'm only about 95% kidding BTW.
I was listening recently to a couple month old podcast on the topic of the Unibomber where the FBI spent $75M on the case with no leads whereas now with massive computer monitoring and tracking and CCTV everywhere the unibomber would have been caught on his first attempt, fairly trivially. And here's something happening over and over yet all the tech is supposedly not working every time, huh, how bout that... Sure sounds like theres a lot more to the story.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:29AM (1 child)
The FBI can't catch this guy because we don't have responsible encryption™ [soylentnews.org]. We should have let the FBI backdoor all phone encryption. What a blunder.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:43PM
Huh according to recent news thats pretty much how they caught the dude. Just a much slower than "it should take".
I suspect they had pix and digital leads a LONG time before they announced, and they've probably been chasing the dude since the first explosion.