Texas rep: Austin bomber had a ‘list of future targets’

Investigators have discovered that the 23-year-old serial bomber killed in Austin this week had a list of targets for future attacks, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas) said Thursday. 

McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Mark Anthony Conditt had a “list of future targets” that named specific individuals and residences that was found by investigators after the bomber took his own life on Wednesday. 

“We went to the homes and cleared them of any suspicious packages,” McCaul said on “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News.

{mosads}The Texas Republican added that investigators are still looking for a “common denominator” between the attacks that killed two people and injured five others in the Austin area in recent weeks, noting that Conditt’s choice of victims seemed “random.” 

While investigators have not determined a motive behind the attacks, police have ruled out the possibility that the bombings were hate-based or terrorist-inspired. Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley called Conditt a “very troubled young man” in a press briefing Wednesday. 

Police have accounted for each of the six bombs listed by Conditt in an audio recording pulled from the wreckage of the car where he killed himself with an explosive early Wednesday morning. 

McCaul mentioned a relatively new technology that allowed police to track down Conditt when he turned on his phone early on Wednesday. The bomber detonated his last device when police approached his vehicle, which was pulled over off the road, injuring one SWAT officer.