Mr. House said that Mr. Conditt’s death left him feeling “numb but relieved,” and also wondering if there were accomplices. “I just can’t grasp that a 23-year-old home-schooled guy put together his devices,” he said of Mr. Conditt, who was raised in an evangelical family in Austin’s northern suburbs. “Here is the headline I would like to see: 23-year-old conservative Christian turns his hatred and judgments into a murderous bombing spree,” Mr. Philips wrote. In East Austin Saturday, Jesse E. Washington warmly recalled Mr. Conditt’s second victim, 17-year-old Draylen Mason, whom Mr. Washington had watched grow from boyhood. Mr. Washington said he knew the family was struggling.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2018 22:52 UTC