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.
Austin Police Dept. confirms bombing suspect has died after detonating an explosive device inside his vehicle as authorities closed in https://t.co/vZh3ZfAcIz pic.twitter.com/mGNQOU5eWz
— CNN (@CNN) March 21, 2018
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.
https://twitter.com/marymhuber/status/979368543153283072
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/979379104104566784
https://twitter.com/rashadrobinson/status/979078168077201408
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https://twitter.com/KVUE/status/977319109665939456
https://twitter.com/usblm/status/976537732087500801
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/977196647829725184
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/977196059268173824
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/976995433246543873
One word:
WHITE
https://twitter.com/MsPackyetti/status/976504093358329856
https://twitter.com/KVUE/status/976986904087482370
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/976990246184325126
White domestic terrorist!
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976951669614350336
https://twitter.com/KVUE/status/976754125881749504
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/976829274429775874
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https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/976811527431888896
#AustinBombings #MarkConditt When will @Austin_Police publicly apologize to Anthony House’s? Do it publicly. Make this right!
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/976814136058314752
READ THIS THREAD……………
🔥🔥🔥
https://twitter.com/TotallyHeather/status/976581687986544642
https://twitter.com/ErinJ_KVUE/status/976572186650710017
https://twitter.com/ErinJ_KVUE/status/976572456663175168
https://twitter.com/ErinJ_KVUE/status/976582781089275905
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976603052164681732
https://twitter.com/Yoojin_Cho/status/976602341288955904
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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
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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.”
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“He’s not a psychopath,” he added. “Something broke him. Something broke him and I don’t know what that was.”
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/who-was-austin-bomb-suspect-mark-anthoyn-conditt-2012-blog-n858671
https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/976577203042316288
Ha.
“He’s not a psychopath,” he added. “Something broke him. Something broke him and I don’t know what that was.”
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/976614885239984128
https://twitter.com/YeomansNBC5/status/976464700186812417
https://twitter.com/cbsaustin/status/976559436817985538
Killmore?
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/976606097736962048
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/976565783101935616
A black roommate and bombing black people………..
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976584244897120256
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
https://twitter.com/Austin_Police/status/976526060832677888
https://twitter.com/SarahNavoyCBS/status/976512399254720512
https://twitter.com/KVUE/status/976511558351310853
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.
https://twitter.com/KVETFM/status/976512079422255104
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/976510352266547202
https://twitter.com/fox7austin/status/976477970821885952
https://twitter.com/PflugervilleTX/status/976496399834599424
https://twitter.com/statesman/status/976497744863997957
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976501387738664960
https://twitter.com/SteffiLeeTV/status/976491637202399232
Police are evacuating residents around Mark Conditt’s home from a 4 to 6 block radius……….
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976499286530756608
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.
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.
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.
https://www.facebook.com/foxsanantonio/videos/10156343492591738/
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976472958821597184
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976473102124310528
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976484123492732928
#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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https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/976467340345987072
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976483380664717312
Maybe I’m too cynical, but I don’t believe it.
YOU——–>>>>>ME
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SWAT TEAM……………….
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https://twitter.com/theinquisitr/status/976462405420179456
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https://twitter.com/mikegaroNews4/status/976452530275340288
WHITE DOMESTIC TERRORIST
@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.
I still think this was a terrorist hate crime.
#AustinBombings Breaking News: #AustinBomber has been identified as Mark Anthony Conditt.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/austin-bombing-suspect-identified-mark-anthony-conditt-pflugerville-nbc-news/
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/976447246278582272
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/976423619604729857
https://twitter.com/KVUE/status/976447401379713025
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
Amen. Thank God for His Mercy!
My God! @KVUE is reporting the Austin bomber is from Pflugerville Texas. Thank you, God… for keeping my family safe in Pflugerville.
Thank goodness the Lord was watching over your family!
I heard late last night police had some streets shut down in Pflugerville so I contacted family there. I wake up to the news, the bomber was from Pflugerville. OMG!
I can only imagine how you are feeling this morning, SG2. So scary.
God is watching over your family!
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/976438035465326592
https://twitter.com/deray/status/976432755411161088
https://twitter.com/AP/status/976401544907239425
Do we ever..
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/976435153441607680
*tears*
Here is a video of Draymen Mason performing in a concert:
https://youtu.be/4hK3PU0JW0I&rel=0
Draylen Mason
“Neighbors remember 17-year old Draylen Mason as a respectable kid with a bright future”
https://youtu.be/HBZo9XtXu4o&rel=0
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/976432108536201217
Anthony Stephan House attended Pflugerville High School and graduated from Texas State University in 2008 with a degree in finance:
http://kut.org/post/reserved-and-resilient-bombing-victim-anthony-stephan-house-had-agreed-mentor-kids-summer-0
https://twitter.com/JenniL_KVUE/status/976416907388649472
https://twitter.com/RoundRockISD/status/976417543987613696
https://twitter.com/JohnDabkovich/status/976400162619879424
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976419406405427203
He could have planted bombs all around Round Rock and Austin areas………..
https://twitter.com/KXAN_News/status/976404317312815105
I’m shook, y’all. In Round Rock, Texas. A serial bomber!
Terrorizing & killing people is enough to get SHOOK about, SG2.
https://twitter.com/startelegram/status/976423077901946883
24 year old white male. Watch the media… he was disturbed, mentally ill in 3-2-1….
THIS
https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/976392963654848512
https://twitter.com/KVUE/status/976425263394418688