{"id":6648,"date":"2018-03-21T00:11:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2018-03-21T20:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T03:56:47","slug":"the-suspected-serial-bomber-of-austin-texas-was-mark-anthony-conditt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=6648","title":{"rendered":"The suspected serial bomber of Austin, Texas, was Mark Anthony Conditt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The suspected serial bomber who died north of Austin, Texas, on Wednesday morning was Mark Anthony Conditt, a 23-year-old who grew up in the area, public records show.\u00a0Conditt died from an explosion<\/a>\u00a0that police say he triggered when a SWAT team was closing in on him.<\/p>\n

The bombing spree killed two black men and injured several other people. Anthony House, 39, died after picking up a box on his porch on March 2, and Draylen Mason, 17, was killed (and his mother was injured) in a similar incident on March 12.<\/p>\n

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The chief suspect in a string of deadly bombings in Texas has been identified as Mark Anthony Conditt. Here, an FBI poster about the Austin serial bomber shows the two men who died in this month’s attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Conditt is the chief suspect in the string of deadly bombings that struck fear and anxiety into thousands of people.<\/p>\n

Here’s what we know about Mark Conditt, based on information culled from a friend and by NPR’s researchers, who consulted public records and publicly available social media accounts:<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Jensen, 24, told KERA<\/a>, “In 2012 and 2013, he and I were pretty good friends. We were home-schooled together in Pflugerville, Texas.”<\/p>\n

Jensen said that Conditt exhibited no tendencies then that would have indicated what he is now accused of doing.<\/p>\n

“He wasn’t like this in high school,” Jensen said, adding, “He did struggle socially as many home-school kids do.”<\/p>\n