The FBI offered a $20,000 reward for any information leading to the capture of those responsible. Arrest, conviction, and sentence of perpetrator After the bomb was defused by the local Spokane County sheriff's bomb squad, the backpack was sent to the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia for further analysis. Police sent bomb-sniffing dogs, a robot, and specially trained officers to the location where the bomb was found. The backpack with visible wires was noticed by three parade workers on a bench in downtown Spokane, about a half-hour before the parade was set to begin. One of the shirts mentioned a rally against cancer in Stevens County, Washington, while the other mentioned a 2009 play put on by students at Chewelah, Washington high school (also in Stevens County). The bomb was found in a backpack that also contained two T-shirts. The New York Times said that the bomb had been reported to police at roughly 9:25 a.m. Īccording to the FBI, the bombing may have been racially motivated, and its timing was likely not a coincidence. The pipe bomb was viable and designed to be directional, which means that it was crafted to spray shrapnel into the street where the parade marchers would pass through had it exploded, the bomb could have caused multiple casualties. The bomb had a "welded blast plate" and it also contained shrapnel, specifically 128 quarter-ounce fishing weights, laced with brodifacoum, an anticoagulant rat poison, which prevents bleeding wounds from coagulating it also contained human feces which causes infections. 2 Arrest, conviction, and sentence of perpetrator.
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