Mad package bomber strikes in Austin

Austin American-Statesman:
3:20 p.m. update: A 75-year-old woman was injured after picking up an exploding package outside her Southeast Austin home on Monday in the second blast reported in the city and the third similar incident in two weeks, Austin police said.

Interim Police Chief Brian Manley confirmed that evidence suggested that this bombing was related to two previous blasts from “box-type deliveries” that killed a teenager earlier in the day and a 39-year-old man 10 days ago.

Manley warned the public about receiving unexpected or suspicious-looking deliveries in an “average-size delivery box,” but declined to offer more specifics about the packages to protect the integrity of the investigation.

He said the devices can be detonated by moving or by opening the boxes.

“Assigning a motive is not possible at this stage in the investigation,” Manley said, adding that police were willing to investigate any avenue.

“We will leave no stone unturned because we will not allow this to go on in this city,” he said.

The chief said authorities did not have a description of suspects or suspected vehicles.
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Emergency personnel responded to the 6700 block of Galindo Street on Monday, just five hours after authorities began investigating a package bombing that killed a 17-year-old and seriously injured a woman in her 40s in East Austin, Manley said.

The woman was hospitalized with critical injuries, he said.
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The incident marks the second reported explosion in the city on Monday and the third in two weeks.
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The U.S. Postal Service told investigators that the packages did not come through their facilities, so the packages were likely left by someone at the doorstep, Manley said.
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In the package explosion on March 2, Austin police responded to a home in the 1100 block of Haverford Drive around 6:55 a.m.

First responders took 39-year-old Anthony Stephan House to a hospital, but he died from his injuries shortly after the blast.
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If I lived in Austin I would add a security camera to the area around the front door.  This looks like a diabolical plot perpetrated by a Batman villain.

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