Mark Conditt threatened to blow himself up in McDonald’s and said ‘I wish I were sorry but I’m not’, according to reported police sources

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The Austin bombing suspect threatened to blow himself up in a McDonald’s and was unrepentant over the fatal attacks that terrorised the Texan capital, according to reports of a video “confession” obtained by police.

“I wish I were sorry but I am not,” Mark Conditt said, according to the Austin American-Statesman, citing law enforcement sources briefed on the contents of the cellphone recording made hours before his death.

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Conditt described himself as a “psychopath” who had been disturbed since childhood, the newspaper added, and pledged that if he thought police were about to catch him he would kill himself with a bomb in a crowded McDonald’s restaurant.

Police have said that the 25-minute recording provides no indication of Conditt’s motive or why he chose his targets. The Statesman also reported on Thursday that an unexploded package bomb intercepted at a FedEx facility on Tuesday was addressed to a woman who works at a spa in downtown Austin – but neither she nor her colleagues knew Conditt.

Investigators say the 23-year-old Conditt blew himself up before dawn Wednesday as a Swat team closed in on him.

They say Conditt is responsible for a series of bombs that killed two people and seriously wounded four others since 2 March but that his motives remain unknown.

The Associated Press contributed to this report