How police tracked down the suspected Austin serial bomber Mark Anthony Conditt
Such senseless murders. I do weep for America.
How police tracked down the suspected Austin serial bomber Mark Anthony Conditt
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/21/austin-serial-bomber-how-police-found-suspect/444631002/
USA Today NetworkMary Bowerman, USA TODAY Network Published 7:54 a.m. ET March 21, 2018 | Updated 9:56 a.m. ET March 21, 2018
Austin, Texas police chief Brian Manley says the suspect in a string of bombings in that city is dead, and that the suspect blew himself up in his vehicle on Wednesday morning as officers approached. (March 21) AP
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The man suspected of carrying out a string of bombings that killed two people and wounded several others in the Austin area is dead after detonating a bomb in a car as SWAT teams closed in.
Authorities tracked down the suspect, identified as Mark Anthony Conditt, 24, using a combination of cell phone triangulation technology, surveillance footage from a FedEx drop-off store, store receipts, and combing through Google searches on the suspect's computer history, KVUE-TV and the Austin American-Statesman report.
Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said in an early morning press conference that witness reports helped police identify the vehicle Conditt was driving. Manley said surveillance teams then tracked the suspect's vehicle to a hotel in Round Rock, Texas.
"We had multiple officers from both the police department and our federal partners that took up positions around the hotel awaiting the arrival of tactical teams," Manley said. "We wanted to have ballistic vehicles here so we could attempt to take the suspect into custody." .....................
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