Teen killed, woman injured in Austin package bomb explosion

Ok two of the victims are connected. That removes random. The odds are beyond minute that they could be random. The police are looking into it. Yah that's code for we all over that like white on rice. All the while still feeding the leftist hate crime loving media drivel about that being a possibility. Because you know that's all they are asking the Chief about during his briefings. Stupid media.

This is now looking very very personal. And even sicker.


Are you trying to say something to prominent African American families?” said Freddie Dixon, stepfather of Anthony Stephan House, the 39-year-old killed in the first explosion on March 2. “I don’t know who they’ve been targeting, but for sure, they went and got one of my best friend’s grandson. Somebody knew the connection.”

Dixon said he is good friends with Norman Mason, whose grandson was the teenager killed in the explosion early Monday morning. The teenager has not been formally identified by police, though they say that could come Tuesday. Mason’s wife, LaVonne, confirmed that her grandson was the 17-year-old victim but declined to comment further.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...xplosives-made-with-skill-and-sophistication/

 

maybe Anthony Stephan House has some creepy past? or fired the person.. has a young daughter ,divorced..
http://www.kxan.com/news/crime/poli...sion-outside-northeast-austin-home/1031534299

 

this could be a key point

suspect could be a neighbor now

 

Good point.

However if someone is going through the risk and expense to build complicated explosives to kill you or your family/friends specifically then you probably have a good idea as to why, even if you don't know who.

 

Yep there is something going on within that circle of people.. They made a very dangerous person very unhappy. And amoral or crazy enough to attack family members to hurt the people he is really trying to make suffer or a point with

The police are stating there is a certain degree of sophistication to these bombs since the perpetrator can construct them and albeit deadly move them to the victims home.

 

I don't think it's the victims at all. The connection is between the stepfather of one and the grandfather of the other. It's a deep one too. They go way back. From same source as above.

Dixon said he used to be the pastor at Wesley United Methodist Church, which the Masons attend, and he and Norman Mason were longtime friends and fraternity brothers. Dixon said he spoke with Norman Mason on Monday, describing him as understandably distraught.

Then he immediately diagnoses the crime and states he thinks its a hate crime. That he and the other guy and families are being targeted because of their prominence in the African American community there.

He sure is talking alot to the media for someone who just lost a member of their family. Could just be grief and talking to make sense of it but to assume so much... I dunno.. My spidey sense BS meter is tingling...

He knows something.

 

Yeah that guy is odd to say the least. If the families were "prominent" then the news media or others would be the ones to make that judgement, you don't say that about your own family for God's sake. Then he claims it is a hate crime.

I would take what that guy says with a grain of salt.

 

Interesting news clip, it includes the scene of the first blast and the neighbor that found the first victim.

 

House wouldn't be the first bomber to blow himself up.

http://www.kxan.com/news/crime/poli...sion-outside-northeast-austin-home/1031534299
"We can't rule out that Mr. House didn't construct this himself and accidentally detonate it, in which case it would be an accidental death," says APD Asst. Chief Joseph Chacon in a news conference Monday afternoon. The chief said while their investigators do not believe the incident was terrorism, they cannot completely rule it out.

Chacon says they have been able to determine that it was a package, although they haven't determined if it was delivered by a company or someone else.


Anthony Stephan House. (TXDL Photo)
"Right now, we're trying to determine how did the package get there and who was the intended target," says Chacon. "We do feel that this was targeted at somebody, we're still trying to figure out if that's the individual who died or not."

Austin police homicide detectives are partnering with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' post-blast team to process the scene. A postal inspector and members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were also on scene Friday.

ATF is currently working to determine what detonated inside the package on House's front porch.

Detectives are asking people who knew House to let them know if they knew anyone who might have had a problem with him or might want to harm him. "Figuring out who Mr. House was in contact with and what kind of motives we can develop, but at this point we don't have a strong suspect in this," explains Chacon.

 

That was written on March 5th, since then two others went off. If he was involved he must have accomplices and he likely didn't build the bombs (who would want to handle a bomb made by an incompetent bomb builder that blew himself up?)

 

I cant deny the possibility that it could be someone who supports trump

But most trump supporters are feeling upbeat which is typically not the time to get crazy

because we are winning

So its equally possible its a desperate liberal who has been driven over the edge because trump is standing in the way of obama’s third term

 

I just have a better understanding of the problem than gun-grabbing liberals do

The threat is nut cases who are driven to kill others

and the means they choose to do so is a secondary factor

 

I think the target is the november election which could depend on turnout

Liberals desperately want to turn Texas blue

 

I guess liberals could argue that people who are too stupid to sweep the floor without supervision would have trouble building a bomb

But they could learn how to pull a trigger

However mass murders are seldom mental slugs

They usually have a reasonably high level of intelligence

 

This is the NRA's fault. ban guns.

 

The anti-gun left uses the bodies of dead children at a platform to push their otherwise necrotic agenda.

 

maybe he/she broke open a few hundred cases rounds and used them for the bomb
to ovoid attraction

 

Possible...

 

Any highschool kid can make black powder

 

i myself am all over the radar i cant get away with squat sh*t

 

i would assume it doesnt have the power of a quicker burning powder

 

Black powder is more explosive than smokeless powder

I think naval guns still use it

 

Guns that use separate charges of bagged powder, yes. The black powder ignites the smokeless.

 

The big guns up to 15 inches on battleships use black powder

Smaller guns that use brass shells probably do use smokeless powder just like a rifle or shotgun

 

Correct.