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(Breaking News) Update – Austin Bombing Suspect Dead After Confrontation with Police

News has broken that the suspected Austin, Texas bomber is dead after a confrontation with police. The Austin Police Department tweeted that they were responding to an officer-involved shooting but didn’t disclose whether it dealt directly with the suspected bomber.

Updated information (10:00 AM, 3/21/2018)

A suspect in a wave of bombings that terrorized Austin killed himself Wednesday with an explosion inside his car as authorities closed in, police in Texas said, ending a manhunt but leaving investigators scrambling to determine whether any bombs remain and if he acted alone.

He’s been identified as Mark Anthony Conditt, according to a source with direct involvement in the investigation.

Latest developments

• The suspect is white and 24 years old, Manley said, without naming him or saying where he lived.
• Surveillance video shows this man, wearing gloves and a cap, taking two packages into a FedEx store in the south Austin area, Mayor Steve Adler said. CNN affiliate WOAI published those surveillance images, which the station said were recorded Sunday.
“Police say that they used that (video) as the final piece to put all of this together, really in the past 24 hours,” Tony Plohetski, an investigative reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, told CNN’s “New Day.”
• Surveillance teams tracked the suspect’s vehicle to a hotel in Round Rock, about 20 miles north of Austin. As police waited for tactical units, the vehicle left the hotel, Manley said.
• SWAT members approached the vehicle, and the suspect detonated a bomb, killing himself and knocking back and injuring a SWAT member, Manley said.
A SWAT officer fired his weapon at the suspect, Manley said. It’s not clear whether the officer shot him.
• Police don’t yet “understand what motivated (the suspect) to do what he did,” Manley said.
• “This investigation is still underway, so we cannot say that this was individual acting on their own,” Manley said.

Police were able to locate Conditt using a variety of tactics, including cellphone triangulation. Surveillance footage taken at an Austin FedEx was also used to apprehend him.

Authorities shared the surveillance footage showing a man believed to be Conditt entering a FedEx facility wearing what appeared to be a blonde wig and dropping off a package.

Early Wednesday, police tracked Conditt’s vehicle until he pulled over on Interstate 35 and “the suspect detonated a bomb inside the vehicle, knocking one of our SWAT officers back,” Manley said, adding that the officer sustained minor injuries.

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