The exploding packages left outside the residential homes in Austin have finally come to 19 days after the first explosion took place. Throughout March, waves of attacks have been threatening the city, leaving civilians in continuous fear. Police searches ended on Wed. March 21, when the suspected bomber, Mark Anthony Conditt, was killed by a bomb he detonated in his own car.

The first explosion took place on March 2 with a package left on the doorstep of a home. This would be the first of three similar attacks in Austin. The blast killed Anthony Stephan House, leaving residents in fear of another attack, which later came. Two more blasts shortly occured. On March 12, 10 days after the first explosion, Draylen Mason was killed when he brought a package inside his house to open it. The same day, a hispanic woman was injured by a similar incident.

“There was feeling that there was not much that we could do,” Mayor Steve Adler said at a City Council meeting. “There was a collective helplessness.”

What followed these three explosions was slightly different. A tripwire placed in central Austin detonated after being tied to a “children at play” sign. Afterwards, police suspected that the bomber was more experienced than they expected.

Another two days later, in San Antonio, a package exploded on a conveyor belt at a FedEx facility. Only one employee was injured, and the explosion was suspected as related to those in Austin. The same day, a call was received by the Austin police about another suspicious package on their doorstep. The package was intercepted before it went off.

On March 24,  security surveillance footage from a FedEx store in Austin showed what looked like a man in a blonde wig, baseball cap, and pink gloves bringing packages into the building. Police were convinced the man was Anthony Conditt, a 23-year old who police cornered by tracking his cell phone. After a extended police chase, Conditt detonated a device within his vehicle, killing himself in the process.

“We are devastated and broken at the news that our family could be involved in such an awful way. We had no idea of the darkness that Mark must have been in,” a statement from Consitt’s family said.

After the extended period of fear in Austin, the incident has finally come to a close.