{"id":353257,"date":"2018-03-21T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/deceased-austin-serial-bomber-identified-as-mark-anthony-conditt-say-police\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:42:00","slug":"deceased-austin-serial-bomber-identified-as-mark-anthony-conditt-say-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/deceased-austin-serial-bomber-identified-as-mark-anthony-conditt-say-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceased Austin \u2018Serial Bomber\u2019 Identified as Mark Anthony Conditt, Say Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Austin police announced that the man described by police as a \u201cserial bomber\u201d is now dead. The suspected bomber reportedly, identified as Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, blew himself up with a bomb as police approached.<\/p>\n<p>The self-inflicted death of the suspect brings a three-week terror campaign of bombings to a close. The five exploded bombs left two people dead and five injured.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE 10:30 a.m.:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Austin police report that the evacuation of the FedEx building Wednesday morning was a precautionary measure as part of a follow-up investigation. \u201cNormal business operations will resume.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Media Update: The scene is secure at 4117 McKinney Falls PKWY. Follow up investigation regarding suspicious package complete. Correction; there was a temporary evacuation of the building for precautionary measures, however, normal business operations will resume. APD PIO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zVgbB6lowH\">https:\/\/t.co\/zVgbB6lowH<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Austin Police Dept (@Austin_Police) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Austin_Police\/status\/976479517790343169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE 10:00 a.m.:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>FBI and SWAT teams are preparing to make entry into the home in Pflugerville, Texas, where Conditt reportedly lived. Police officers could be heard yelling \u201cput your hands up\u201d to someone who may be inside the house.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE 9:40 a.m.:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>Austin police are investigating another suspicious package at the FedEx Ground distribution facility near the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, KVUE\u00a0reported. The facility is the same location where an unexploded package that had been shipped by Conditt from a FedEx store in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/deceased-austin-serial-bomber-identified-as-mark-anthony-conditt-say-police\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin police announced that the man described by police as a \u201cserial bomber\u201d is now dead. The suspected bomber reportedly, identified as Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, blew himself up with a bomb as police approached. The self-inflicted death of the suspect brings a three-week terror campaign of bombings to a close. The five exploded bombs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}