Posted on 03/21/2018 3:34:11 AM PDT by servo1969
5:10 a.m. update: The suspect in a string of bombings in Austin is dead, interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley confirmed early Wednesday.
Investigators identified several leads but the case really broke in the past 24 to 36 hours, Manley said.
The chief described how authorities tracked down the suspect’s vehicle to a Round Rock-area hotel. Police began following the suspect’s vehicle, and as SWAT approached, the suspect detonated a bomb in the car, Manley said.
The name of the suspect, described only as a 24-year-old white man, has not been released, pending notification of his family, Manley said.
Although police are still investigating the possibility of accomplices, he said, “we believe this individual is responsible for all of the incidents in Austin.”
Manley urged the community to remain vigilant for possible other explosives, adding that “we do not know where (the suspect) has been in the past 24 hours.”
Police have not identified a motive for the string of bombings, Manley said.
Earlier: A man whom authorities were attempting to arrest early Wednesday in a string of bombing attacks in Austin killed himself with an explosive device as authorities closed in, a high-ranking law enforcement official told the American-Statesman.
The official said authorities identified a suspect in the past 24 hours based largely on information gained after police said the suspect shipped an explosive device from a FedEx store in Sunset Valley, a suburb surrounded by Austin. That evidence included security video.
Authorities also relied upon store receipts showing suspicious transactions from the person and obtained a search warrant for his Google search history that showed him conducting searches they considered suspicious, the official said.
Authorities relied upon cell phone technology to trace the suspect to a hotel in Williamson County, the official said.
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They’ll be coming after your reloading equipment.
Those packages are probably the ones Fedex suspected. One went off and one was quarantined but did not contain a bomb.
Going to a Fedex store was clearly a big mistake for this guy.
The leftie police chief was blabbing up and down that it might be “racially motivated”.
Then a bomb was mailed to the Republican AG. Suddenly, the “motive is unknown”
I don’t know who it is, but I’ll only beleive the authorities if it supports my world view.
Shhh—they’re not quite done updating his social media accounts...
My guess is that he was an ISIS sympathizer/Muslim.
I certainly agree with that.
Got it! ;-)
LOL. Where's my Combat Pay?!
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Who is this?
Since you lifted those pics from Daily Mail, why didn’t you go ahead and ID them, as DM has, as victims of this Austin perp?
Why just post the pics, with no description???
Anthony House and Draylen Mason.
The two people that were targeted and killed by the bomber.
See post 55.
Victims.
Yes. You should’ve posted that, with the pics you posted.
Just curious why you did not.
I never use navigation on my phone or in my car but yet Google sent me a request to rate my experience at an indoor golf dome I visited several weeks ago.........
Fortunately a FReeper told me how to turn off the location tracker.
I did after you pointed out my oversight.
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