Breaking News: Austin bomber kills himself with explosive device

Posted on March 21, 2018 by SouthernGirl2

CNN— A suspect in a wave of bombing attacks in Austin killed himself inside his car with an explosive device early Wednesday as authorities closed in, police said.

Since the bombings started on March 2, investigators frantically searched for clues, calling the attacks the work of a”serial bomber” who increasingly changed tactics. The bombings killed two people and left the Texas capital terrorized with fear for 19 days.

In the past 36 hours, law enforcement received information directing them to a person of interest, who ultimately became a suspect.

Surveillance teams tracked the suspect’s vehicle to a hotel in Round Rock, north of Austin. As police waited on tactical units, the vehicle left the hotel.

SWAT approached the vehicle and the suspect detonated a bomb, killing himself and injuring a SWAT member.

A SWAT officer fired his weapon at the suspect after an officer was knocked down by the blast. It’s unclear whether the officer shot the suspect.

The suspect is a 24-year-old white man, and authorities don’t know whether he acted alone or what his motive was.

He is responsible for all the incidents in Austin, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said.

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108 Responses to Breaking News: Austin bomber kills himself with explosive device

  20. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 22, 2018 at 9:14 am

    #AustinBombings #MarkConditt When will @Austin_Police publicly apologize to Anthony House’s? Do it publicly. Make this right!

    https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/976814136058314752

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  27. Liza says:
    March 21, 2018 at 7:40 pm

    MAR 21 2018, 8:21 PM ET
    Who was Austin bomb suspect Mark Anthony Conditt? 2012 blog reveals views
    by TRACY CONNOR and SUMIKO MOOTS
    …
    Some of the answers came when police uncovered a recording Conditt made in which he provided details of the six package bombs he used against others and a seventh he used to kill himself. The recording, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said, does not mention hate or terrorism but is “the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life.”

    Neighbors said Conditt’s family appeared to be stable. His parents were involved in a multilevel marketing business and his father, an electrical engineer, ran an online computer business. Mark Conditt moved out of the family home a couple of years ago and into one a few blocks away that he bought with his father and where lived with roommates.

    “I would describe them as an extremely nice family,” neighbor Jeff Reeb said.

    “He seemed like a very normal kid, which is what everybody says or most neighbors say in this type of situation,” Reeb said. “But over the years there is nothing I can point to.”
    …
    “He’s not a psychopath,” he added. “Something broke him. Something broke him and I don’t know what that was.”
    …
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/who-was-austin-bomb-suspect-mark-anthoyn-conditt-2012-blog-n858671

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  33. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 6:30 pm

    A black roommate and bombing black people………..

    https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976584244897120256

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  34. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 1:56 pm

    Mark Conditt has roommates. If they didn’t know anything about the bombs and the bombs weren’t made in the home, where did he built them? #AustinBombings

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    • majiir says:
      March 21, 2018 at 5:48 pm

      I expected them to make this claim, but they are responsible because they passed their views on government and social issues on to him as they were raising him and home-schooling him. The things he said about guns, LGBTQ persons, child molesters, pedophiles, etc. had to come from somewhere. His early socialization occurred in their home. They can try to deny their role in creating this monster, but he was/is their monster.

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  45. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 11:56 am

    Police are evacuating residents around Mark Conditt’s home from a 4 to 6 block radius……….

    https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976499286530756608

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  46. Liza says:
    March 21, 2018 at 11:35 am

    The picture of the Conditt came from his mother’s Facebook post which is still, at least for now, accessible. She posted this with the picture:

    Danene Conditt
    February 19, 2013 ·
    I officially graduated Mark from High School on Friday. 1 down, 3 to go. He has 30 hrs of college credit too, but he’s thinking of taking some time to figure out what he wants to do….maybe a mission trip. Thanks to everyone for your support over the years.

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    • Liza says:
      March 21, 2018 at 11:37 am

      Well, I guess he figured out what he wanted to do. Become a terrorist and kill people.

      So, a “mission trip”? I wonder if they were Evangelical Christians.

      And he was home schooled apparently.

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  47. Liza says:
    March 21, 2018 at 11:25 am

    SG2, thanks for the comprehensive reporting on all of this.

    I hope that this is the end of this, and that anyone else involved is quickly apprehended.

    Hang in there.

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  51. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 10:56 am

    #AustinBombings #MarkAnthonyConditt was unemployed. Who financed his bomb making materials. Where did he learn how to make a bomb? Who radicalized this terrorist?

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  55. rikyrah says:
    March 21, 2018 at 10:14 am

    Maybe I’m too cynical, but I don’t believe it.

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  64. Ametia says:
    March 21, 2018 at 8:40 am

    WHITE DOMESTIC TERRORIST

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  65. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 8:33 am

    @KVUE is reporting the bomber intended to kill more people. Authorities found out he googled names and addresses in Austin and Cedar Park that prompted police to contact those people to warn them they were in danger.

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  66. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 8:30 am

    #AustinBombings Breaking News: #AustinBomber has been identified as Mark Anthony Conditt.

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  70. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 8:07 am

    A BOMB sitting on the counter. The clerk didn’t know the danger he was in. Thank God for his mercy.
    https://twitter.com/cbsaustin/status/976439843889778689

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  71. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 7:53 am

    My God! @KVUE is reporting the Austin bomber is from Pflugerville Texas. Thank you, God… for keeping my family safe in Pflugerville.

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  80. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 7:06 am

    He could have planted bombs all around Round Rock and Austin areas………..

    https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976404317312815105

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  81. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 7:02 am

    I’m shook, y’all. In Round Rock, Texas. A serial bomber!

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  83. SouthernGirl2 says:
    March 21, 2018 at 6:57 am

    24 year old white male. Watch the media… he was disturbed, mentally ill in 3-2-1….

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