Families of the victims of the Austin, Texas bombings are searching for answers as new developments point to connections between their deceased loved ones, NBC News reports.  

Anthony Stephan House, 39, and Draylen Mason, 17, lost their lives after the two opened packages delivered to their homes in the month of March. According to the local chapter of the NAACP, the two victims of the bombings were members of prominent African American families, and knew each other.

“They have a long history and go to the same church,” NAACP President Nelson Linder said of House and Mason in an interview with NBC News.

Linder said that both victims attended the Wesley United Methodist Church, which was founded 152 years ago by newly freed enslaved African Americans.

House was a senior project manager at Texas Quarries, a supplier of limestone from the state. He died March 2. Draylen was a rising bassist who was accepted into Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin; he was also was part of the Austin Sound Waves program that offers free music instruction to artistically underserved children. He was killed Monday.

A third bomb went off Monday, according to NBC News, wounding 75-year-old Esperanza Herrera. She is currently in critical condition. 

“The intended target was another person who might be connected to the House and Mason families,” said Linder.

The American-Statesman reports that that possible target might have been one Erica Mason. Authorities believed that she was a relative to Draylen but upon further investigation, they found out that she is not. 

“They basically just wanted to know if I was a relative or married to one of them, if I was in any way associated with the family,” Erica Mason told the American-Statesman. “If I was associated with the family, it could have been that they were trying to come after me.”

Erica believes that the bomb that ended up at Herrera's home may have been meant for her. That possibility has kept her up at night. 

“It is spooky, and I don’t [know] if it’s more terrifying that it could have happened to me or my boyfriend,” Erica Mason said, “And that it happened to this poor, sweet, innocent woman.”