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.
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“They removed the tracking device from one of their cars and put it on a city bus. LOL.”
Is that where these fugitives got that idea ? I know a lot of times they find the outlets on many buses and plug the phones in. It reads that until someone unplugs it.
“It is officially “FedEx”, with FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight etc...”
They were going to buy UPS, but no one would accept a company called FedUp!!
Yes I do ! Look for a freepmail coming shortly.
Holy smokes ! These cats sound dangerous.
Oh well, we’re ready. Whatever, commies. Bring it.
And people wonder why smart phone batteries are not removable.
HA!
I began Nuclear Weapons Specialist training at age 17, in 1971 at Lowry AFB, CO.
An article I read said one person interviewed claimed to have seen multiple drones flying over a house, and that the house was run-down, and a lot of people were regularly seen coming and going from it. Sounds like a group bombing effort. He might have just been the delivery guy.
I would assume that one going off would cause the second on to go off. Maybe the guy was ambidextrous.
Do you think guys in the military are taught bomb-making?
I'm an Ordnanceman in the Navy and I never went to bomb-making school nor do I know anyone who did.
Honeywell makes bombs. Raytheon makes bombs. Guys in the military don't make bombs but anyone with courage and motivation can go on-line and figure out how to make things explode.
Thank you!
I think a higher level of expertise is needed to make one safely and to make sure it goes off as planned.
quick ID & personal history
I guess I was assuming specialist that know how to diffuse a bomb
would know how to make one.
But I certainly see your point.
Good catch.
Notice they are Maoists.
So is Obama if Obama belonged to the New Party in Illinois.
Recall Charlottesville- I think that was a rallying effort by Maoists to bring up memories of the 1979 Greensboro Shootings, or as the Maoists call it, the Greensboro Massacre in S Carolina.
That was a case where Maoists from California, NY, etc., spoent months calling for violence against the KKK, whites, and so on before converging on Greensboro to hold a march in support of unionizing the textile industry. They held a March because they could not get local whites to vote for unionizing and they wanted to convince blacks that were not interested in it either that the reason whites were against it was racism rather than economic sense.
Problem was, the Klan was well aware of the threats of physical violence before the Maoists and Union organizers showed up, and came out in their cars to counterprotest.
The Maoists pulled out clubs and started bashing cars, etc...and then three of them got shot along with a person described as a bystander [who was actually married to one of the leftist women] .
The latter was the one the proesecution used to win a federal conviction because local and state juries were not persuaded by prosecutors that shooting instigators of violence was an offense.
To make it worse the instigators were apparently led by or influenced by an FBI informant, and local cops had stayed away, allowing the events to get out of control.
Anyway, look up this incident and then Charlottesville will be de ja vu.
He looked insane, dropping off bombs, with the blonde wig.
The Greensboro march was organized by a Chinese-American guy who claimed the Klan killed his Chinese father years before. Not sure if that claim preceded events or was made later to try to justify his group’s threats and calls for violence. The Maois group did not get along with the CPUSA because they thought the CPUSA was too soft.
In any case the local Klan was so small that they had to call in help from neoNazis just to get the courage up to confront the Maoists, who while bringing guns and the like, were lousy shots.
Nothing at all sophisticated about dynamite and a blasting cap. You can't make dynamite explode without some kind of blasting cap. Black powder is on shelves all over the country and doesn't explode so sophistication is not a requirement.
I guess he never heard of burner phones.
“quick ID & personal history”
Of me ?
What’s that in the road, a head?
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