Posted on 03/21/2018 5:22:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
The suspected serial bomber who killed two people and terrorized Austin, Texas, for three harrowing weeks was killed in a dramatic confrontation with police overnight Wednesday, authorities said.
The suspect, identified by police early Wednesday as a 24-year old male, was killed near the motel he was traced to by authorities using surveillance footage from a Federal Express drop-off store and cell phone triangulation technology, according to The Austin American-Statesman.
The man, whose name was not released, died after fleeing the motel in a car, with police hot on his tail. He drove into a ditch, sparking the fatal confrontation.
"We wanted this to come to a peaceful resolution tonight," said Austin Police Chief Brian Manley. "However, we were not afforded that opportunity when he started to drive away."
Police said the man detonated two package bombs as police closed in, firing at him. It was not immediately clear whether he died from the bombs or shots fired by police. One officer was knocked back by the blasts, but none were seriously hurt.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Perhaps. The imagery may have helped solidify al Qaeda’s target list, or at very least provided encouragement to the terrorists who committed the acts.
“He blew up reeeeal good.”
That sounds plausible. They still started with the assumption he dropped the package off at the store that blew up, but that would be a logical place to start looking.
“Listening to Glenn Beck program and (if I heard correctly) on the Fox news report they referred to the Austin bomber as an EX WHITE GUY!”
Correction, Dave Anthony referred to him as a 23 year old white guy, and he was not ex military.
“EX white guy”?
Was he identifying as something else? How do you become “Ex”?
LOl...maybe he ‘divorced’ his white side?
Well parts of him were red.....
Well, Beaver Dam sure was. Tiny farming community.
‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ is a given for malfeasance and civil unrest.
Can we expect a manifesto tailor made for that narrative?
A lone bomber targeting random locations with what authorities called sophisticated devices is I would think in the forensics of crime an anomaly.
Bomb making is dangerous. I doubt you can just read a “How to blow things up for the advanced bomber” book gather your materials and one week later be spreading carnage.
Bombers usually are rather clear about their motives. Political, monetary (as in extortion), personal or all three. I think spreading the fear is part of why bombers choose that method of murder. Even if not announced in advance the choice of target is usually an obvious one meant to make clear the “power” of the bomber and the vulnerability of the victims.
I am not writing the suspect was not the guilty party(as in delivered the bombs) but I wonder whether he was truly working alone. Whether he was the one who made the bombs. If not who did and did they decide the suspect would be the fall guy for the bombings. I also find it rather convenient that this crime was solved so early when compared to others of its type.
I am almost scared to write this but it is almost as though the bombings were a trial run. Which does not speak to a lone bomber scenario.
And now the trial runners know how to avoid one method of tracking them down.
Thanks blabbermouths.
Google, teen builds nuclear reactor in garage. So a bomb is not out of bounds for a 24 year old.
Hokey smokes!
That site sounds scary. Makes you wonder what big data might have to say about the rest of us.
I was thinking the same thing.
We must ban them. And, garages.
I heard he had blue eyes- one blew out the front and one blew out the back.
Well I figure what they did was took all the MSM numbers from all the cell towers within a 20 mile radius of each blast and see who’s number showed up and by refining the query they determined who it might be...
Well, did he recently graduate from some training program in some hell hole country?
The internet has everything.
Isn't the expansion of the vast domestic surveillance network intended to monitor the Internet for people who seek out information like bomb-making?
It seems the government has spent too much time getting political, and not enough time doing their job.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.