A Williamson County grand jury on Thursday declined to charge an Austin police officer who shot at serial bomber Mark Conditt the morning of March 21 as law enforcement closed in on him in Round Rock.

Austin police officer Vincent Garcia, who was the only officer who fired his weapon during the confrontation with Conditt on Interstate 35 before Conditt blew himself up in his vehicle, will not face any criminal prosecution.

Garcia was placed on administrative leave after the incident, which is standard Austin Police Department protocol after an officer-involved shooting. Williamson County District Attorney Shawn Dick said he wanted to continue to adhere to the Police Department’s policy by having a grand jury hear the case.

Among the evidence presented was a Texas Department of Public Safety video made public this month that showed aerial footage of the encounter with Conditt moments before the blast that killed him.

Austin police say Conditt, over 19 days in March, placed and mailed a series of package bombs in and around Austin. The explosive devices killed 17-year-old Draylen Mason and 39-year-old Anthony Stephan House, and wounded five others.

Investigators think Conditt also shipped two bombs, one of which exploded at a FedEx facility near San Antonio, from a FedEx store in Sunset Valley. The other was found at a distribution facility near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport before it went off.

Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said the grand jury’s decision Thursday allowed Austin police to release their own aerial footage of the incident, which mirrors the DPS footage released last week.

"This is really the opportunity to give just a little bit more of an insight to the community of what happened that night in those final moments when, really, the bravery and the heroism of members of the Austin Police Department and our federal partners was on display as they took actions that brought this to an end," Manley said.