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“Late last night and early this morning, we felt very confident this was the suspect in bombings throughout Austin,” Manley said.

As police took up positions around the motel and waited for tactical units to arrive, the suspect bolted, Manley said.

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Police followed the vehicle, and, when it went off the road, SWAT team officers moved in.

“The suspect is deceased with significant injuries,” Manley said, adding that he has not yet been positively identified by the medical examiner.

Manley also warned more package bombs could be out there.

“We don’t know where he has been in the past 24 hours,” Manley said. “If you see something that looks suspicious, see something out of place, see something that gives you concern, call 911.”

Emergency vehicles stage near the site of another explosion, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

President Trump reacted to the news early Wednesday morning, tweeting, “AUSTIN BOMBING SUSPECT IS DEAD. Great job by law enforcement and all concerned!”

Witnesses to the confrontation told FOX7 there was a bomb robot used by law enforcement, but they didn’t hear any explosion.

“There was no smoke coming out of the cars,” an unidentified witness told FOX7.

The incident appears to have brought to an end a terrifying sequence that began March 2, when Anthony Steven House, 39, was killed when a package he discovered on his porch in northeast Austin exploded.

Ten days later, a second “porch bomb” exploded nearby, killing 17-year-old Draylen Masonand injuring his mother. A third bomb went off on March 12, injuring Esperanza Herrera, 75, and police quickly determined all three were connected.

Draylen Mason played the bass, and was to attend the University of Texas at Austin in the fall (Facebook)

As the Texas capital’s residents sought answers, developments took a frightening turn March 18, when two men were injured by a bomb that was set off by a sophisticated “trip wire” made of fishing string. That bomb, along with the accelerated pattern of attacks, spurred fears authorities were hunting a highly trained maniac.

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Just after midnight on March 19, a packaged destined for Austin exploded at a FedEx delivery facility in Schertz, some 65 miles south of Austin. That package had been sent from Austin, and police were able to track it to the drop-off store where they obtained surveillance video.

Also Tuesday, the FBI said a suspicious package reported at a FedEx distribution center near the Austin airport “contained an explosive device.” The two packages were sent from a mail delivery office in Sunset Valley, an Austin suburb south of downtown.