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Texas AG: 'Getting close' to catching serial Austin bomber

In a phone interview with KVUE Tuesday night, Paxton added, "I think this will be resolved soon."
Ken Paxton.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told KVUE he believes investigators are closing in on the serial bomber striking across Austin since the beginning of March.

In a phone interview with KVUE Tuesday night, Paxton added, "I think this will be resolved soon."

Attorney General Paxton indicated he isn't concerned that investigators haven't cracked the case yet, citing the massive federal, state, and local effort to catch the bomber. He also made a reference to surveillance video, previously mentioned by Congressman Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Paxton adds that every time the bomber has struck, he or she has provided more information for investigators to work with. He echoed other expert analysis that investigators can learn much more from an intact device (like the one recovered from a FedEx facility in southeast Austin earlier Tuesday) than they can from one that's been detonated (similar to other package bombs that have exploded across Austin).

Paxton tells KVUE the Attorney General's Office participates in the Joint Terrorism Task Force, working with other agencies to investigate crimes like the serial Austin bombings. He added that he would classify this string of attacks as domestic terrorism.

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