You can see behind us here the flurry of activity where investigators say this is where the search for the serial bomber has ended here in the overnight hours. Authorities say that over the course of the last few days they have been able to put together information leading them to a suspect. When they set out teams to begin surveillance it brought them to a hotel just up the road from the scene. You see is a small number of hotels off 35 on the north side of austin here. The Authorities Say that they were waiting for tactical teams to arrive here at the scene to be able to begin the process of approaching the suspect. But before that could happen, the suspect started leaving the parking lot, driving along the service road of the interstate. That is where the engagement came. The chief of police here in austin picks up the story from from here. He describes how it all unfolded when the takedown ended. As members of the Austin Police department s. W. A. T. Team approached the vehicle, the suspect detonated a bomb inside the vehicle, knocking one of our s. W. A. T. Officers back and one of our s. W. A. T. Officers fired at the suspect as well. The suspect is deceased and has significant injuries from a blast that occurred from detonating a bomb from inside his vehicle. Reporter chris, one of the members of the austin s. W. A. T. Team suffered minor injuries in that altercation with the serial the suspect, serial bomber in this case. Hes expected to be okay. Its amazing how things started to build and change things here. One of the key pieces of evidence, the video from fedex dropoff location. The serial bomber is described as a 24yearold white male. That he was appearing in the Surveillance Video wearing a wig and gloves, someone looking very suspicious at that time. They are urging people to still be cautious. There could be other explosives around. Joining us on the phone is an Investigative Reporter for the austin americanstatesman. He broke the story of the bomber being killed. Thank you very much for bringing this reporting. Very important for the community and beyond. First, what tko we know about the key pieces of proof and clues that led them to this man and this hotel . Well, im told that it is really a number of things that happened break this case wide open within the last 24 hours. But the collection of the Critical Evidence of this case goes back a week if not more, im told. After the first blasts, common household materials that could be easily purchased were being used to manufacture these devices. So then what we know occurred is that agent fanned out the city of austin, going to Big Box Retail stores as well as locally owned stores trying to determine whether or not there were suspicious purchases. Going through receipts and going through sales records from those stores. Im told that effort did prove successful to Law Enforcement and did in fact, provide Critical Evidence that they also used to bolster their case. Im told they also were able to acquire federal search warrants for this persons ip address and then use that google information indicated that this person had been conducting suspicious searches. So authorities, again, used that. Law enforcement also confirming that they have relied also upon witness interviews to help them get a sketch of this possible suspect. But, again, the main piece of evidence that really seems to have broken this case wide open is that the fact that the suspect went to the fedex store in the southern part of the city where he was captured on security video. And police say they used that as the final piece to put all of this together again really within the past 24 hours. There was some try an hraeugz about the description of the vehicle that helped them find their way to the Hotel Parking lot. What are you hearing about motive, tony . Police are still trying to understand the motive. As it has been described to me by Law Enforcement officers who had been okayiworking on this c literally around the clock now for three weeks, their primary motivation is trying to figure out who was doing this and stop them before they continued going on this spree of setting bombs across the city of austin. Now begins the process of going back and trying to understand a number of different things, what were their motivations. Were they targeting someone specific . And if so why . They will turn back the clock to try to understand those important dimensions of this case as well. Tony, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Absolutely. Pwrets bring in special agent James Gagliano and phil mudd. Motive matters. Certainly it would determination the classification of this investigation. We havent heard terrorism or terror raids because investigators didnt have any understanding of a political motive or objective here. But why he was doing it matters in terms of their determination of continuing threat, right . Sure, it does. In this case, i have a i couple questions im not sure were going to answer. One rule of thumb. When you get one individual, if we determine that there are not other people involved in this, the likelihood of mental in stability is a lot higher. You get two, three, four five people you get conspiracies like i used to see that had some sort of political motivation. Here clearly he is not targeting someone based on race, ethnicity because we have trip wire and packages where he doesnt know who will each the package or whether it might explode in the fedex facility. Lets go back to the unabomber, one we can draw connections to. Ted kaczynski, purposely put things inside the bombs to draw efforts away and scrutiny away from him. Little hints like a small piece of metal with something stamped on it that had nothing to do with him, the area he was from or even the devices in the bomb. We have to be careful about that. This bomber was able to think about this, first three package, east saoeufpltd third, trip wire, west side of austin. Dropped off papblsz in south austin p. Finally corraled by police and ended up being killed in the northern part of austin. Where is the Surveillance Video . Were asking people in their homes if they have any. All of that still being worked outcoming into play. What do you want to know that we are not getting an answer to . Blessedly, there are no perfect crimes. Criminals are like all of us. They take the path of least resistance. They do things where theyre comfortable and do things generally in their back yards. The most difficult part of this will be, its a bombing investigation. The most blast analytics. I have stood over many of crater from an ied in afghanistan and watched in austere conditions some of the bomb text to put together the pieces that you need to find out what the signature of the bombmaker was and then track that back and all the forensic evidence. Were blessed in the 21st century. Latent fingerprints can be pulled from next to nothing. They have dna. They can track it off the bomb parts. And unexploded devices. The biggest blessing is we have incredibly dedicated men and women who do this kind of stuff. Phil, this aint easy what they just did down there. This guy wasnt leaving any good indication where they were coming from. We know there was an army down there, termed used by the mayor in thanking them. How hard was it for law he enforcement to figure out who this was and relatively quickly if you think about it . It depends whether he made mistakes. When you have this volume of activity and you have this kind of digital trail, which i want to get into, the guy is going to make mistakes. He is leaving a credit card record in the store. How did he pay for the package when you have surveillance. Are there license plate readers going out of the fedex facility that could identify after you saw that photo what the vehicle was. They said they had the option, the warrant to go into his google searches. Again, another digital trail. This guy, moving so quickly, will leave traces of activity all around. The problem is its going to take 500 people to track like the store invoices. That part is remarkable to me too. They figured out were not talking about i ordered something online. So President Trump has a lot of legal challenges facing him, specifically three women all in the same kind of universe of fact. They want to tell their stories of alleged affairs and sexual harassment. 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