Gunman who shot dead two hostages and hero SWAT officer Jorge Pastore, 38, when he tried to rescue them from Texas home had body armor, night vision goggles and ballistic helmets

The gunman who killed a Texas SWAT officer was armed with a rifle, was wearing body armor and barricaded in a bedroom, according to a search warrant that revealed authorities also believed he might have been making bombs.

Ahmed Mohamed Nassar, 35, was identified as the shooter Wednesday, by the Austin Police Department Wednesday afternoon. 

'Cutting instruments, body armor, and any tactical gear to include firearms were all said to be worn or used by the suspect,' the search warrant obtained by Austin TV station KXAN states. 

Officers were called to the home November 11 just before 3 a.m. when a woman who managed to escape the house called 911 'screaming for help' and sharing she had been stabbed and that two others were still trapped inside. 

The first officers to arrive at the home were shot at, and they requested SWAT be called in.

Senior Officer Jorge Pastore, who'd been with the Austin Police Department for three years and decided to become a cop after serving as a paramedic in the Parkland school shooting in Florida, was killed in the rampage. 

When SWAT members arrived, they went inside the home where Nassar was holed up in a bedroom. 

After breaching the bedroom door, Nassar began shooting, killing Pastore and wounding a second officer, the cops say.

The gunman was killed by three members of SWAT who returned fire.

Two other victims, Nassar's brother and mother, were found in the house. 

They were identified as Eyman Ahmed El Nemr-Nassar, 63, and Riad Mohamed Nassar, 32, by members of Austin's Islamic community. 

The DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that the FBI had previously visited the home before Saturday's hostage situation took place and that the suspect was on the terror watch list. 

Five people associated with the home were named in the search warrant as 'suspected parties.'

Neither their names or roles in the incident were included in the document. 

'It is not uncommon for people with gun, body armor, or night vision to make homemade explosives,' the warrant reads.

Investigators listed the following as items they were looking for:

• Body armor and protective plates to include ballistic helmets as well as arm or leg protection
• Night vision goggles
• Firearms and ammunition
• Targets that have been shot by a firearm
• Explosive devices or bomb-making materials

The search warrant did not include what a search at the home yielded.

Pastore, who is survived by his wife and two step-children, will be buried Friday.  The police department is planning to honor the elite cop with a procession through the streets of Austin starting at 7am, followed by a funeral service.

'He embodied the very best of this profession and of this department-- that your job and your role is to be able to fight for other people no matter what the danger may be,' Michael Bullock, president-elect of the police officers' association said.

'To show up to that scene, to know that other officers had already been shot at and that someone is actively seeking to harm and kill other people...with no hesitation, to go through and try to face that evil. That's the most honorable way that anyone in this profession can probably go.'