Family of Austin bombing suspect expresses shock

March 22, 2018

The family of the man suspected of planting the bombs this month that killed two people and injured four others in the Texas capital expressed shock, saying they don't know what could have motivated him.

"I mean this is coming from nowhere. We just don't know what. I don't know how many ways to say it but everyone is caught off guard by this so, yeah I don't know. I don't know. I mean I don't know," Mike Courtney, the uncle of 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt, said Wednesday.

Authorities say Conditt blew himself up in a motel parking lot overnight as a SWAT team approached his SUV.

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