The roommate of the Austin bombing suspect has become a “person of interest” in the investigation, according to Texas Rep, Michael McCaul (R). “I would say at this point, a person of interest is being questioned,” he told Fox News on Monday.
Mark Anthony Conditt—the man responsible for the bombings that left two people dead and five others injured—had two roommates. The roommate in question is a male in his 20s. Authorities are trying to determine if he knew that Conditt was making explosives in their home. As McCaul explains, any knowledge of Conditt’s behavior would implicate the roommate in the incident.
“If you have knowledge of someone doing something like this, making bombs, and bombing the community and terrorizing the community, you have an obligation, a duty to report that,” McCaul explained. “If not, you have knowledge and you're complicit with the conspiracy. When we talk about ongoing investigation, even though the operation center is wound down at this point, what is continuing at this point is the questioning of the roommate.”
As we previously reported, police had recovered a self-taped audio recording in which Conditt expressed no guilt over his actions. He did not explain why or how he chose his targets and referred to himself as a “psychopath” with emotional problems that have plagued him since he was a child. Police are treating the recording as a confession.
