A 17 year old boy was killed and a woman was injured in a package bomb explosion at an Austin home on Monday morning. A package was spotted in front of their house and taken into the kitchen, where it exploded. This incident was similar to another fatal blast in Austin earlier in the month. Police have said there is no clear motive for the blasts but they are being investigated as homicides. The two homes that received the packages belonged to African Americans. The police chief said “We cannot rule out that hate crime is at the core of this but we are not saying that that is the cause.”In both cases, the packages were delivered overnight and found in the morning.
