text: Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| The gunman who attacked Dallas police headquarters in an armored van early Saturday provided authorities with a name and a motive for the assault, but officials said definitive identification will wait until a medical examination is completed. 
   
   Concerns about explosive ordnance after pipe bombs were found near the headquarters building south of downtown prevented police from recovering the man's body hours after a police sniper targeted him through the windshield of the van. 
   
   Officers used a robot to safely approach the vehicle to confirm the gunman was dead, and they alerted the public that some planned detonations might be heard as they tried to gain entry. 
   
   Two loud blasts came from the vehicle about noon as authorities tried to neutralize explosives believed to be inside. 
   
   Police spokesman Maj. Max Geron later said at least two pipe bombs were found in the vehicle, which had ports in its walls to fire guns from. 
   
   As you can see the armored van used in the attack is burning #DPDattack pic.twitter.com/VIby2p5kCq — Dallas Police Assoc (@DPA_PoliceAssoc) June 13, 2015 
   
   Police had spent hours trying to negotiate with the man in the armored van he used during his assault on police headquarters before he led dozens of squad cars on a chase that ended along Interstate 45 in Hutchins. 
   
   No one was injured by the man, who identified himself as James Boulware, a 35-year-old with a history of family violence. 
   
   Dallas police Chief David Brown said the gunman said he was going to blow up police because they “took his child and accused him of being a terrorist.” 
   
   'I tried to tell him that the police are just doing their job' 
   
   Boulware's mother, Jeannine, declined to comment Saturday morning when she was reached at her Dallas home by phone. 
   
   "I don't want to talk to the media. I want to talk to my son. I want my grandson to talk to his father. Do not call this number again," she said. 
   
   The suspect's father, Jim Boulware of Carrollton, said his son had blamed police for losing custody of his child, who is in middle school. 
   
   But despite previous threats of violence, he said he never expected anything like Saturday's events. 
   
   "He blames the police for taking his son away from him," Jim Boulware said. "I tried to tell him that the police are just doing their job." 
   
   The elder Boulware said he saw his son Friday night and that there was no indication that trouble was coming. 
   
   Jim Boulware did say that he had noticed a strange van but that his son's plans had been to buy a vehicle he could live in and use to travel to a friend's home in West Texas.
target: – The chaos in Dallas is over after the city's police headquarters was attacked by a gunman with bombs. A police sniper has indeed killed the suspect inside his van, reports AP. It took a while to confirm because police were cautious about approaching the vehicle. It also appears that he acted alone, contrary to earlier police reports that up to four people were involved. Police Chief David Brown said the man identified himself as James Boulware and blamed police for "accusing him of being a terrorist" and causing him to lose custody of his son. He allegedly opened fire on police headquarters with automatic weapons about 12:30am and left two explosive devices near the building. One of them, described as a pipe bomb, detonated as an explosives robot moved it, but nobody was injured. Authorities say the gunman led police on a chase to a fast-food parking lot, where he holed up in his van and claimed it was rigged with bombs. The Dallas Morning News reports police arrested a James Boulware, now 50, in 2013 after he threatened to attack his family, churches, and schools, and had obtained firearms, ammunition, and body armor. "He blames the police for taking his son away from him," his father, Jim Boulware, tells the newspaper. "I tried to tell him that the police are just doing their job."