A Bomber Carves Violent Path Across Austin
March 20 2018 - 3:18PM
Dow Jones News
By WSJ Staff
Police are investigating a string of bombings across Austin
since early March that have left two people dead and several others
injured.
Initially, the locations of the blasts and the race of the
victims led officials to speculate that the crimes were targeting a
specific area or could be racially motivated, but the more recent
attacks dispel those theories. The March 18 explosion injured two
white men in an upper middle-class area, and the most recent was at
a FedEx facility Tuesday.
March 2
1112 Haverford Dr.
The first bomb went off in northeast Austin, on a suburban
street nestled behind several, large corporate office campuses,
where Dell Technologies, General Motors and Home Depot have
hundreds of technology workers. It killed Anthony S. House, 39
years old, after he handled a box left on his front porch.
March 12
4806 Oldfort Hill Rd.
The second bomb went off before dawn 10 days later in a
gentrifying, lower-income neighborhood in East Austin, where
newcomers who commute to downtown jobs on mopeds live next to
longtime denizens. The package explosion killed Draylen Mason, a
17-year-old high school senior who had been accepted to the music
school at the University of Texas.
6706 Galindo St.
Later the same day, another bomb detonated, in a lower-income,
largely Hispanic enclave of southeast Austin, sending an elderly
woman to the hospital after she handled a package left near her
home. That attack spurred conjecture the bomber was targeting
minority communities on the east side of Interstate 35.
March 18
Dawn Song Drive, between Republic of Texas Boulevard and Eagle
Feather Drive
The pattern changed when a bomb was triggered by two white men,
both in their early 20s, who were walking through a neighborhood in
southwest Austin. The upper middle-class area, known as Travis
Country, abuts a large wooded area of creeks and biking trails
called the Barton Creek Greenbelt, and is in a predominantly white
part of the city. It is on the west side of I-35. The two men were
taken to the hospital with significant injuries. Both were listed
in stable condition by Monday afternoon.
March 20
A bomb went off at about 12:25 a.m. local time at a FedEx
facility in Schertz, Texas, about an hour south of Austin. The
explosion may be linked to the recent spate of bombings in Austin,
a Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman said. An employee was
treated for minor injuries.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 20, 2018 15:03 ET (19:03 GMT)
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