Serial bomber in Texas

[Robert St Devil]

A mysterious package exploded at a Fed Ex center today in Schertz/San Antonio (my hometown). That marks the 5th in a series of public bombings since March 2nd in or near Austin. Schertz is about an hour away from the Texas capital.

My prayers for all the victims & hopes that there are no further bombings.

[Mayerling]

I believe Austin, Texas was the place of that series of Ripper-like murders of women in the middle 1880s?

Jeff

[Mayerling]

I woke up this morning and learned that after a police chase the alleged bomber killed himself in his car with one of his own devices. But they still are looking into his background for motive and connections.

Jeff

[Pcdunn]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/us/austin-explosions/index.html

Identified by name. He was a twenty-four-year-old white man. Two of his victims were African-Americans, another was an elderly Hispanic woman.

They are cautious about it being over, as they don't know if he sent out additional package bombs, or if he was working alone or with others.

[Abby Normal]

he done blowed hisself up

[Ginger]

Hoist on his own petard.

[GUT]

Mustn’t have been able to shoot.

[Mayerling]

Reminds me of one of the condemned Haymarket Anarchists in Chicago in 1887 (I think it was Lingg), who managed to get a dynamite cap into his cell, bit down on it, and blew off half of his head's jaw. The poor fellow lingered for a few hours - he probably thought it would be faster than strangling to death slowly by hanging (this was before the adoption of the "Short drop" in judicial hangings).

Jeff

[Robert St Devil]

I believe Austin, Texas was the place of that series of Ripper-like murders of women in the middle 1880s?

Jeff

Hi Jeff, and yes it was: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...EkCkeD&ampcf=1

I never imagined that it was going to end the next day, credit to the investigation team. I halfway expected a correspondence from the bomber prior to an arrest, seemed radical even by Texas standards. Then again I'm glad that they got to him before he went after University of Texas or 6th Street.

[Pcdunn]

I feel for the young man's family, and those of the victims. They have ruled out his motivation being racial hate, due to lack of any evidence of ties to white supremacists, but some people are wondering why this case is not being called domestic terrorism. Is it only terrorism when the culprit has darker skin?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/opinions/austin-bombing-implicit-bias-opinion-gagliano/index.html

[GUT]

I feel for the young man's family, and those of the victims. They have ruled out his motivation being racial hate, due to lack of any evidence of ties to white supremacists, but some people are wondering why this case is not being called domestic terrorism. Is it only terrorism when the culprit has darker skin?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/opini...ano/index.html

The offenders family are often “forgotten victims”.